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Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out. — George Lois

I look in the mirror, and I work with the brightest person I know. — George Lois

The producers of 'Mad Men,' you know, think I hate their show, which is true. — George Lois

Sometimes all the 'marketing' insight in the world can't move a client, but the creation of a truly great brand name can become a billion-dollar idea! — George Lois

The more creative you are the more trouble you're in. You have to be courageous! — George Lois

I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator. — George Lois

In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind. — George Lois

Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room. If you had 10 incredibly bright people, nothing would come out of it. — George Lois

What Apple did for technology is brilliant, but they didn't do nothin' for our economy. — George Lois

If you don't burn out at the end of each day, you're a bum. — George Lois

What I taught myself was that in any problem you get, you've got to come up with an innovative, brilliant, kind of unusual, stunning solution. — George Lois

My concern has always been with creating images that catch people's eyes, penetrate their minds, warm their hearts and cause them to act. — George Lois

When you create advertising, always start with the words. — George Lois

A cautious creative is an oxymoron. — George Lois

A truly great magazine cover surprises, even shocks, and connects in a nano-second. — George Lois

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

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. — George Lois

Onwards and upwards, and never give your failures a second thought. — George Lois

Never, ever, work for bad people — George Lois

The whole area of creativity is constipated and frightened. — George Lois

It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone. — George Lois

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

The accurate measure of a human being is what he or she actually gets done. — George Lois

I've done truth to power all my life. It's got me into trouble, but who cares? — George Lois

People say I'm the original Don Draper. I'm not Don Draper. — George Lois

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it. — George Lois

If you're working, and you're not trying to be great, give up. — George Lois

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind. — George Lois

If you think people are dumb, you'll spend a lifetime doing dumb work. — George Lois

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time:
1% Inspiration
9% Perspiration
90% Justification — George Lois

I may have destroyed world culture, but MTV wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for me. — George Lois

Great advertising, in and of itself, becomes a benefit of the product. — George Lois

Only mediocre ideas can be tested. — George Lois

From the time I was three or four years old, I drew all the time. Drew all the time, every second. — George Lois

When you think of a brand, you should immediately understand it from the advertising attitude, from the words and visuals. — George Lois

If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you. — George Lois

Truly great images make all the other millions of images you look at unimportant. You gotta look at an image and understand it in a nanosecond. — George Lois

The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness. — George Lois

The computer has played a role in destroying creativity with the Photoshop. Everybody thinks they're a designer. — George Lois

Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires. — George Lois

There's no such thing as a cautious creative. — George Lois

I am in the poison gas business. Advertising should make you choke, make your eyes water, make you feel sick. — George Lois