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Category: George Lois

Look at the news stand, you know? I mean, it’s a cacophony of famous people or people who want to be famous with blurbs all around it, and it’s supposed to be, you know, that’s supposed to be creativity in journalism. My God, it’s unbelievable. It’s shocking.

Creativity, God, Journalism

All the people who run agencies, all the important people in agencies have taken communication courses, marketing courses, advertising courses, and courses basically teach advertising as a science, and advertising is so far from a science it isn’t even funny. Advertising is an art.

Funny, Art, Science

The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication – the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in ‘Mad Men.’

Art, History, Age

Ad agencies do all kinds of market research that ask people what they think they want, and instead, you should be creating things that you want. If you do something and you get it, the rest of the world will get it, too. Trust your own instincts, your own intellect, and your own sense of humor.

Trust, World, Research

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do…

advertising, branding-expert, marketing

If you don’t burn out at the end of each day, you’re a bum.

hard-work, inspiration, motivation

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

inspirational, passion

If a man does not work passionately – even furiously – at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.

ambition, drive, work

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

inspirational, passion

If a man does not work passionately – even furiously – at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.

ambition, drive, work