I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people but that of boring them to death.

I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.

Advertising is a business of words but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

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.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising Initiative and Dynamics.

Great designers seldom make great advertising men because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form but as a medium of information.

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs photographs of advertising sculpture with ready-made objects videos using already-existing film.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science but an art.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

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

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.