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“Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.”
“Publicity images often use sculptures or paintings to lend allure or authority to their own message. Framed oil paintings often hang in shop windows as part of their display.
Any work of art 'quoted' by publicity serves two purposes. Art is a sign of affluence; it belongs to the good life; it is part of the furnishing which the world gives to the rich and the beautiful.
But a work of art also suggests a cultural authority, a form of dignity, even of wisdom, which is superior to any vulgar material interest; an oil painting belongs to the cultural heritage; it is a reminder of what it means to be a cultivated European. And so the quoted work of art (and this is why it is so useful to publicity) says two almost contradictory things at the same time: it denotes wealth and spirituality: it implies that the purchase being proposed is both a luxury and a cultural value. Publicity has in fact understood the tradition of the oil painting more thoroughly than most art historians. It has grasped the implications of the relationship between the work of art and its spectator-owner and with these it tries to persuade and flatter the spectator-buyer.
The continuity, however, between oil painting and publicity goes far deeper than the 'quoting' of specific paintings. Publicity relies to a very large extent on the language of oil painting. It speaks in the same voice about the same things. (P. 129)”
Source: Ways of Seeing
“Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation”
“Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.”
“Publicity is effective precisely because it feeds upon the real. Clothes, food, cars, cosmetics, baths, sunshine are real things to be enjoyed in themselves. Publicity begins by working on a natural appetite for pleasure. But it cannot offer the real object of pleasure and there is no convincing substitute for a pleasure in that pleasure's own terms. The more convincingly publicity conveys the pleasure of bathing in a warm, distant sea, the more the spectator-buyer will become aware that he is hundreds of miles away from that sea and the more remote the chance of bathing in it will seem to him. This is why publicity can never really afford to be about the product or opportunity it is proposing to the buyer who is not yet enjoying it. Publicity is never a celebration of a pleasure-in-itself. Publicity is always about the future buyer. It offers him an image of himself made glamorous by the product or opportunity it is trying to sell. The image then makes him envious of himself as he might be. Yet what makes this self-which-he-might-be enviable? The envy of others. Publicity is about social relations, not objects. Its promise is not of pleasure, but of happiness : happiness as judged from the outside by others. The happiness of being envied is glamour.
Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself. One could put this another way : the publicity images steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product. (P. 128)”
Source: Ways of Seeing
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases.”
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”
“Publicity is like eating peanuts. Once you start you can’t stop.”
Source: Andy Warhol's exposures
“Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.”
“Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.”
“Publicity is the only thing some people fear. An aroused public opinion has been the cause of most reforms. Telling the truth is perhaps the pacifist's only weapon. Over and over again, even the suggestion that one may publish the facts has changed a scornful, bullying opponent into an almost subservient helper. But how dangerous it is!”
Source: It Occurred to Me
“Publicity is the soul of stupidity, but we must not forget that we live in a stupid universe, so publicity is the engine of our world.”
Source: Aforismi contro il potere e la stupidità
“Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.”
“Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.”
“Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.”
“Publicly and among themselves biologists rightly celebrate the diversity of life on Earth... At the end of the day, however, their confession is heard by no one: they work with a single scientific sample-life on Earth.”
“Publicly criticizing people, even when I don't have the facts, is not that good of an idea.”
“Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.”
“Publicly owning up to a mistake and making an effort to do and be better is the best salve.”
Source: Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets
“Publicly telling the truth on social media can be one of the most effective healing journeys.”
“Publicly, they claim to be thrilled to have the opportunity to engage directly with their customers; privately, they suspect, maybe even fervently hope, that Facebook and its spawn are fads.”
Source: Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World
“Publicly, we say one thing....Actually, we do another.”
“Publika, čiji su recepcijski standardi odgojeni na televiziji i internetu, književno je sve nepismenija, ona traži brzu i nedvosmislenu zabavu...”
Source: Lisica
“Publish and be damned.”
“Publish and forget.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Publish and Forget, Sonnet
(When Scientist becomes Poet)
Write till you drop dead,
that's my motto of writing.
I don't do promotions,
have never done book signings.
In fact, once I release a work,
I forget and move on to the next.
In an industry driven by book sales,
My principle is, publish and forget.
I never remember how much I have written,
though the vastness is staggering to many.
All I can think of, how much I have to write,
before I drift into the slumber of non-entity.
At birth we become elements to entity,
upon death the entity reverts to elements.
Make sure to make your trip mean something,
more reason to transcend foolish containments.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Publish in haste and repent at leisure.”
“Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.”
Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden
“Publish to make the work public.”
“Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.”
Source: Lord Ormont and His Aminta (Complete)
“Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.”
Source: Science and Industry in the Nineteenth Century
“Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.”
“Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.”
“Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.”
Source: Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood
“Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.”
Source: Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
“Publishers are private businesspeople who must reach their economic goals independently.”
“Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.”
“Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.”
“Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.”
“Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material.”
“Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?”
“Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.”
“Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.”
“Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.”
“Publishers, readers, booksellers, even critics, acclaim the novel that one can deliciously sink into, forget oneself in, the novel that returns us to the innocence of childhood or the dream of the cartoon, the novel of a thousand confections and no unwanted significance. What becomes harder to find, and lonelier to defend, is the idea of the novel as—in Ford Madox Ford’s words—a “medium of profoundly serious investigation into the human case.”
“Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.”
“Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.”
“Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.”
“Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale, will it suit the palate of the people? Alas, this palate is like a dumping ground; it relishes anything that needs no mental mastication. As a result, the mediocre, the ordinary, the commonplace represents the chief literary output.”
Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections