#commercial

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#friends #friendship #reflection #time #understanding

Humanity has been institutionalized and we are all the products of commercial and institutional life. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#humanity #institution #life

A boy in the schoolyard handing out the very same love-letter to a bunch of girls. This is what I think of ‘limited editions’ in art photography. ↗

— AtheARTIST

#art-photography #commercialisation #limited-edition #art

These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar. ↗

— John Muir

#greed #nature #nature

We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making. ↗

— Peter Bart

#going #kind #see #very

But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it. ↗

— Richie Benaud

#actions #annoys #commercial #doing #find

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain. ↗

— Ken Burns

#choice #commercial #compromise #conscious #gain

There's almost 70 billion in square feet under construction in high rises in commercial, residential and light manufacturing. And we estimate about 30 billion square feet, and that's with a 'B,' is commercial, that we would just consider office space. To put that in perspective, that's a 5x5-foot cubicle for every man, woman and child in China. ↗

— James Chanos

#almost #billion #child #china #commercial

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#american express #bill #commercial #express #i

I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.' ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#apocalypse #commercial #creative #cuts #film