Top 68 Sander Quotes
#1. If the '80s were about Christian Lacroix ball gowns, the '90s give us wealthy women who either go to work or pretend to, and want office suits or slip dresses they can wear to dinner parties - ergo, the minimalism of Prada, Jil Sander, and others. But this is minimalism that comes at maximal prices.
Michael Shnayerson
#2. When I was starting, I was very much influenced by the straight up, eyes to camera style of August Sander. He is really the only one. Had I known then the work of people like Ken Russell, Vivian Maier, Helen Levitt, and Steven Berkoff, they would undoubtedly have influenced me too.
Derek Ridgers
#3. What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.
Raf Simons
#4. In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was.
Raf Simons
#5. You wanted to ride, my nasty girl, so fucking ride," Sander challenged.
Setta Jay
#6. In terms of Medicare, I'm in favor of sitting down and having a serious discussion about the likely impact of the Affordable Care Act, health-care reform, on the cost issue and changing the fee-for-service structure.
Sander Levin
#7. We need for America to get back to basics and focus on the middle class's quality of life. Healthcare reform is vital to restoring that standard of living.
Sander Levin
#8. If I had the power, I would ban leggings.
Jil Sander
#9. The Ways and Means Committee for me has this opportunity to work with programs where I can take my parents' sense of community and make it work.
Sander Levin
#10. It is imperative that women have quality affordable day care available to them because without it, families suffer.
Sander Levin
#11. I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.
Jil Sander
#12. You don't have to pay more to have a great form.
Jil Sander
#13. In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
August Sander
#14. Michigan has a lot at stake in the defense industry, and the defense industry has a lot at stake in Michigan.
Sander Levin
#15. One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.
Jil Sander
#16. Extending federal unemployment insurance is vital for millions of Americans laid off through no fault of their own, and it serves as an important economic stimulus.
Sander Levin
#17. I feel that things happen for a reason and open up new opportunities.
Jil Sander
#18. Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.
Sander Levin
#19. You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range. It's a mistake to essentially collapse those two - they're not the same. I don't think you can achieve everything at once.
Sander Levin
#21. I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.
Jil Sander
#22. I feel very strongly that clothes that fit well make a person feel better. It's maybe half the value of the merchandise.
Jil Sander
#24. I am convinced that you don't need to spend a fortune to look like a million.
Jil Sander
#25. The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.
Jil Sander
#26. I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.
August Sander
#27. My approach has always been rather sensual.
Jil Sander
#28. That's what healthcare reform is about: the middle class's economic security.
Sander Levin
#29. The When Women Succeed, America Succeeds economic agenda will enable women to achieve greater economic security, raise wages for women and their families, and better allow working parents to support and care for their families.
Sander Levin
#30. By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.
August Sander
#31. Dave Camp has been very much influenced by, and often guided by, the radicalization of the Republican Party ... and too often failed to speak out.
Sander Levin
#32. A critic is someone who comes down off the mountain after the battle and shoots the wounded.
Sander Vanocur
#33. Westmoreland recognized that the only way to seal South Vietnam's eight hundred-mile western border was to shut down the infiltration routes.
Robert D. Sander
#34. In 1940, President Roosevelt called on American industry to become the 'great arsenal of democracy.' Automotive manufacturers in Michigan responded and converted their assembly lines from cars to tanks and helped America win World War II.
Sander Levin
#35. I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.
Sander Levin
#36. Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.
Sander Levin
#37. Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.
Sander Levin
#38. What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.
Sander Levin
#40. Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Security to provide guaranteed protection against the loss of earnings due to retirement, disability, or death.
Sander Levin
#41. Mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement, a mere five-hundredth of a second of that person's life-time. That's a very meager or small extract from a life.
August Sander
#42. I've never been so ready for anything in my damn life."
"You have a safe place to rest in me...close your eyes and rest in that.
Piken Sander
#43. The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy.
Jil Sander
#44. I had panels - roundtables in the district - and the stories that were told are really difficult to accept. People who have diabetes who can't get insurance because of a preexisting condition; others who were laid off and the have no place to turn.
Sander Levin
#45. Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age
August Sander
#46. Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.
August Sander
#47. The armored vehicle manufacturing base is not a light switch that can be turned on and off at will. If we mothball production of systems like the Abrams tank, it will take time and money to get this capability back.
Sander Levin
#48. My brother and late sister and I were raised in Detroit; it was where the middle class across racial lines, the middle class was able to develop, build a home, have for the first time retirement benefits, have a job, and yes, their kids began to go to college.
Sander Levin
#49. In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.
Jil Sander
#50. We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.
Jil Sander
#51. When people think about Michigan, they usually think about cars.
Sander Levin
#52. I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.
Jil Sander
#53. Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.
Jil Sander
#54. Even as a child, I told my whole family how to improve their looks.
Jil Sander
#55. Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.
August Sander
#56. I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves.
August Sander
#57. I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.
Jil Sander
#58. The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying.
Jil Sander
#59. It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.
Jil Sander
#60. No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.
August Sander
#61. I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself.
Jil Sander
#62. Tomorrow's intangibles become yesterday's financials.
Peter Sander
#63. Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself to tell the truth about our times and people in a sincere manner.
August Sander
#64. Life is full of challenges and surprises.
Jil Sander
#65. If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.
Jil Sander
#67. Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford that.
Sander Levin
#68. We have to create jobs but also make sure that those who are looking for work aren't just left without any assistance whatsoever.
Sander Levin
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