Quote by John Berger
Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal – John Berger

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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. – John Berger

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The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness. – John Berger

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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. – John Berger

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The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. – Leonard Bernstein

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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. – J.B. Priestley

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In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. – William Bernbach

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We read advertisements to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready — even eager — to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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