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A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indiffe...  
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight...  
Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men-of-the-mind ...  
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.   Art
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.  
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.  
Affluence creates poverty.  
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true ...  
Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for consc...  
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criteri...  
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can...  
Art is anything you can get away with.  
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological ...  
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.  
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experien...  
Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain princi...  
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-dit...  
Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want ...  
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can underst...  
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of ou...  
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.  
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Earl...  
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among al...  
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is ...  
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in p...  
It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brut...  
Jokes are grievances.  
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private conscious...  
Money is just the poor man's credit card.  
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.  
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today...  
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will b...  
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.  
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.  
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living...  
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business...  
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain...  
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, ...  
The medium is the message.  
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and...  
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has ...  
The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist...  
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.  
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a...  
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of...  
The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the ru...  
The winner is one who knows when to drop out in order to get in touch.  
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.   Nature
We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape ...  
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.  
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as cu...