Aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.

— Noah Kerner

After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.

— Günter Grass

All Advertising is essentially a promise of future happiness.

— Suleman Abdullah

All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us – by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down.

— Kalle Lasn

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

— George Orwell

A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men's appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis size, personal grooming, or taste in clothes--all of which we do. The fact is that women are able to view men just as men view women, as objects for sexual and aesthetic evaluation; we too are effortlessly able to choose the male "ideal" from a lineup and if we could have male beauty as well as everything else, most of us would not say no. But so what? Given all that, women make the choice, by and large, to take men as human beings first.

— Naomi Wolf

An ad for cigars appears in 100,000 newspapers; sales of that brand increase by 3% for a short time thereafter. A new play receives a viciously negative review in a theatrical journal that prints 500 copies; the playwright shoots himself. Who’s the better writer?

— Jason Lutes

A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.

— David Ogilvy

Any impossibility turned into a possibility is magic.

— Amit Kalantri