Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising.
I'm hard-nosed about luck. . . If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.
Sometimes, the advertising is better than the product. Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. Everyone tries the thing and never buys it again.
From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
The Creative Revolution is over. Everybody is justholding onto their jobs and no one is ever going to say toa client. . . ‘Buy this or I’ll resign your account. ’ You don’tdo it anymore. It’s now, the majority of the time. . . ‘How do you like it? When can I change it for you?’
Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko. . . all believed in the social role of art. . . Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity with activity. Art with engineering; music with painting; poetry with design; fine art with propaganda; photographs with typography; diagrams with action; the studio with the street.
The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.