Nuseir Yassin Quotes

Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.

In America, even revolutions need a commercial sponsor.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time.

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

Advertising, the product of capitalism, can only justify itself on the premise that the market is a force for good.

Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.

In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.

Advertising is 'an evil service'.

Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are created, and there's a barcode put on the package, and I'm out there in the street selling it, those decisions as a businessman are different than the creative decisions you make.

Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.

Everything is designed to help you sell out.

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

Everyone is someone else's catalyst for selling something these days.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.