Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
— Marshall McLuhan
Affluence creates poverty.
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
Art is anything you can get away with.
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
