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Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you want a mass-market presentation, you have to get attention.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.