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"Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising."
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."

"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."

"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."

"You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern."

"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."

"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere."

"The future of advertising is the Internet."

"That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in."
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"The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye."


"Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future."


"Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits."


"I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation."


"Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art ."


"History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy."
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