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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Advertising is - quite often - alive to our real needs. It's just the products on offer might not be the things that will help us satisfy them.

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

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 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.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been able to do so much, and learn so much. I view it as really vital, even though sometimes it can be really annoying.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.