Barbara Kruger Quotes

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?

I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

Apple has great marketing, among the best PR and marketing in the world.

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

The ad industry thinks their clients are their customers. They think the companies who pay for the production are the ones they are supposed to serve. So the ads they produce make their clients happy... but infuriate the rest of us.

Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread.

I don't want people ever to think I'm not in advertising. It's such a business of enthusiasm that if you're not totally excited about it, you should leave it.

We're not going into advertising. But we see the future battleground existing between ourselves, digital firms, and media-buying firms.

Advertising has always been something I kind of understood.

People don't generally like advertising that takes a stand.

Advertising is a very fundamental need, so I don't think it's going to go away.

As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.

Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.

The advertising industry needs to keep evolving.

Advertising's always been a considerable pressure on publishers.

I once attended an advertising conference held at the Greenbrier Hotel in 1968. The dean of the original Mad Men, the great David Ogilvy, was the keynote speaker. The subject of his speech was the new creative revolution in advertising.

No kid ever graduated school and said, 'I want to go into advertising.' Advertising is almost everyone's second or third choice.

Brands, musicians, and public figures were among the first to embrace video on 'Instagram', and we've been impressed with how brands have extended their reach with video ads.

When I first redesigned the 'Surfer' magazine, a magazine about magazines took a copy to the famous American designer Milton Glaser, and - surprise surprise - he hated it.

Everyone can benefit from seeing smart marketing.

After completing my studies, I got into advertising.

Working at the ad agency showed me just how possible things were from a production standpoint.

What needs to change is the nature of advertising itself. That business hasn't really evolved since the days of Don Draper.