#marketing

Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is not a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped blank. The appeal of the material is not the fantasy that the model will come to life; it is precisely that she will not, ever. Her coming to life would ruin the vision. It is not about life. Ideal beauty is ideal because it does not exist; The action lies in the gap between desire and gratification. Women are not perfect beauties without distance. That space, in a consumer culture, is a lucrative one. The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage, its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #consumer #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can't relax to let her sensuality come into play. If she is hungry she will be tense. If she is "done up" she will be on the alert for her reflection in his eyes. If she is ashamed of her body, its movement will be stilled. If she does not feel entitled to claim attention, she will not demand that airspace to shine in. If his field of vision has been boxed in by "beauty"--a box continually shrinking--he simply will not see her, his real love, standing right before him. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#aim #black #bringing #into #marketing

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences. ↗

— Taylor Dayne

#black #did #grew #how #i

Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#any #conversations #despicable #hear #jam

It's a really interesting and diverse business. You're a farmer first, then a winemaker, then you're onto marketing and distribution. So it's multi-faceted and really engaging. I've learned more in the last couple years than in the ten prior to that, so it's been pretty interesting. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#business #couple #distribution #diverse #engaging

The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it. ↗

— Don Bluth

#action films #animated #anything #department #film

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#did #failure #first #five #i

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#connected #curiosities #human #i #i believe

Ray and I do not draw salaries, Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in. ↗

— Steve Vai

#believe #draw #i #i do #into