Ben Shahn Quotes

I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world. They made me America's Number one Pin Up.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

I fell in love with commerce and the opportunities that come with compelling visual storytelling.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

Everybody is promoting something.

Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.

Advertising has always been part show biz.

The first time that somebody handed me a sheet of paper with a promo on it, it was like a 'throw up in your mouth' kind of moment. And it's not, like, their fault, you know? It's not the writers' fault. But if was my world, there would be no written promos; there'd be no scripts.

I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.

I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.

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.

I painted billboards above every candy store in Brooklyn.

One of the things that we hope to do with 'Pitchmen' is to give people an appreciation of what we do.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.

I've been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.

I'm a walking billboard. That's my pleasure.

I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at college. I worked in advertising for two years but didn't like it much, then began doing a bit of illustration work for various publishers.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer.