Vivienne Westwood Quotes

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

I grew up in a country where advertising doesn't exist.

The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold

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 the very essence of democracy.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

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

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.

Everybody is promoting something.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

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

Advertising is 'an evil service'.

If Madison Avenue advertising executives were to pick a song that would best represent America, the last one they would choose is 'The Star Spangled Banner.'

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

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.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.

Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.

In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and everyone bought it.

Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising literacy, which combines appreciation for technique with skepticism about motives. We respond to ads with at least as much rhetorical intelligence as we apply to any other form of persuasion.

We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.

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.