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Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. -- William Bernbach
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. -- Ellen Willis
I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design. -- Len Wein
Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information. -- Dick Wolf
I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising. -- Jeff Koons
I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures. -- Tony Kaye
I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work. -- Jonathan Hickman
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. -- Jerry Saltz
Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function. -- Alison Jackson
All the people who run agencies, all the important people in agencies have taken communication courses, marketing courses, advertising courses, and courses basically teach advertising as a science, and advertising is so far from a science it isn't even funny. Advertising is an art. -- George Lois
I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at college. I worked in advertising for two years but didn't like it much, then began doing a bit of illustration work for various publishers. -- Graeme Base
Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion. -- George Lois
Advertising is the art of persuasion. -- William Bernbach
When advertising is great, it's transcendent. It's art. -- Jared Leto
The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition. -- Freya Stark
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. -- Marshall McLuhan
Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture. -- Adrienne Monnier
If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art. -- Michael Schudson
Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.' -- Jef I. Richards
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. -- David Ogilvy
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. -- Will Rogers
All art is advertising. It stands for a particular point of view. Art that exploits badness is advertising badness. -- Jack Beal
Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials. -- The Edge
I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form. -- Stanley Donwood
There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape. -- Edwin Lefevre
I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium. -- Robert Altman
Fashion is not art. Fashion isnt even culture. Fashion is advertising, and advertising is money. And for every dollar you earn, someone has to pay. -- Gia Carangi
In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling. -- Gore Vidal
Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do"¦ -- George Lois

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