In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'.

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

More traffic means more advertising dollars.

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

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range.

Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'

The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.

They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.

I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity.

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.

We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.

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

Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.

Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.

Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.