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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
Jokes are grievances.
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
Money is a poor man's credit card.
Money is just the poor man's credit card.
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
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