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Quote by David Ogilvy
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but a

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. – David Ogilvy

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Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. – David Ogilvy

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Business
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David Ogilvy
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The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years. – David Ogilvy

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Age
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I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive. – David Ogilvy

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Experience
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David Ogilvy
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A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor. – Helen Rowland

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Art

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. – Guillaume Apollinaire

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Art

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation. – Louise Brooks

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Art

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. – William Wordsworth

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Art

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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war. – Maria Montessori

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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Dont knock your friends. Dont knock your enemies. Dont knock yourself. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Now people look at The Scream or Van Goghs Irises or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value. – Jerry Saltz

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The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they dont always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldnt have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? Im interested in the exceptions. – Chris Cleave

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Anger