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"Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it."
"It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase."
"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
"I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising."
"Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio."
"Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising."
"Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men."
"All advertising advertises advertising."
"The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising."
"As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world."
"Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused"
"By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon"
"The smartest advertising is the advertising that communicates the best and respects the consumer's intelligence."
"The point of advertising is to destroy markets."
"If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to."
"I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up."
"There is no failure except the failure of trying."
"When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?'"
"The future of advertising is the Internet."