Naomi Klein Quotes

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

Everyone's very relaxed about brand names in television.

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.

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.

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.

If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

I love commercials.

In America, even revolutions need a commercial sponsor.

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world.

I see The Gap ads as being a great example of how branding has changed. Those Gap campaigns are pop culture. They've been incredibly powerful. They have had the kind of effect on culture that a hit band has. Just look at The Gap's Khaki swing ads, which were music videos. They had this tremendous impact on the industry - suddenly everything started looking like Gap ads and it became difficult to know who was co-opting whom and who was creating culture.

I never want to predict the relationship between music and advertising.

I am a big believer in PR.

I formulated the theme behind 'The Grand Illusion' album after observing how American culture creates illusions through advertising and entertainment to convince us that our lives our lacking, in order to sell products.

When I see a billboard that literally just has five names, and they're all A-listers, I'm just like, What is that bringing to the world that's new?

Advertising has always been part show biz.

I was raised on GG Allen, Divine, Elvira and Marilyn Manson. I was always more interested in those button pushing, transgressive artists and they made a lot of good money doing it.

I had to write 1500 words on advertising and marketing at the weekend for my business management course, and you can't think about rugby while you are doing that!

Advertising has always been something I kind of understood.

A lot of stuff that I'm involved in is about branding.

Everything in our world is branded.

Long before social media existed, the proto-tweets of advertising had penetrated American popular culture: 'A mind is a terrible thing to waste.' 'Where's the beef?' 'A diamond is forever.' 'Think different.' You'd be hard pressed to find a writer's craft that has more directly influenced the vernacular.

I've always been obsessed with marketing and media. I always wanted to be a business brand owner. I wanted to create things.

I don't like ads. I don't like selling things. That's not me.

'Powers of Persuasion: The Story of British Advertising' by Winston Fletcher - the impression you get from reading this book, which covers post-war advertising until the present, is of a chaotic, self-serving, occasionally brilliant but ultimately shallow business.

The longest word in the world is "a word from our sponsor."