Top 100 Diana Vreeland Quotes
#3. This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.
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#4. It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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#5. Naturally, I've always been mad about clothes. You don't get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.
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#6. You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
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#7. You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.
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#9. For goodness sakes, beware of curls ... It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.
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#12. Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
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#13. The only thing people are interested in is people.
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#14. Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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#15. Allure is a word very few people use nowadays, but it's something that exists. Allure holds you, doesn't it? Whether it's a gaze or a glance in the street or a face in the crowd or someone sitting opposite you at lunch ... you are held
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#16. Don't you loathe the word "workaholic"? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!
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#17. I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself ... I suppose that is what you call a loner.
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#18. The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
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#19. Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
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#20. What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
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#21. Where Chanel came from in France is anyone's guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant - and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both.
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#22. I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing.
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#25. I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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#26. There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!
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#27. It's not about the dress you wear, but it's about the life you lead in the dress.
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#28. The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls
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#30. Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.
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#31. I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
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#32. I never felt comfortable about my looks until I married Reed Vreeland. I believe in love at first sight because that's what it was. I knew the moment our eyes met that we would marry,
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#33. I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!
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#34. God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no diamonds. He gave them style.
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#35. Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. ... It's there for your pleasure.
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#36. Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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#38. Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can't think all the time.
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#39. A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.
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#40. How boring to copy the past
with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.
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#41. Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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#42. We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.
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#44. I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring ...
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#45. Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
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#47. Maintainence is elegance. Diana Vreeland. vogue magazine 1984.
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#48. You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.
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#49. Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
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#50. Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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#51. You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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#55. Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.
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#56. The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.
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#58. Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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#59. Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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#60. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress.
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#61. Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
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#62. I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.
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#64. Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.
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#65. No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.
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#66. You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.
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#67. If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
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#68. I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary.
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#70. Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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#71. Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate - always.
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#72. I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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#73. A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that's one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting - well, that's entirely different.
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#74. I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.
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#75. If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body & good carriage. You held your head high, & you were a beauty You knew how to water-ski, & how to take a jet plane fast in the morning, arrive anywhere, & be anyone when you got off.
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#76. Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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#78. I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked.
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#79. A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.
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#81. My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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#82. Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world - and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.
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#85. I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.
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#87. I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
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#88. I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.
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#89. Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray ...
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#90. I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
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#91. The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness.
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#92. One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it; it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming ...
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#93. The best time to leave a party is when the party's just beginning. There's no drink that kills except the drink that you didn't want to take, as the saying goes, and there's no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.
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#94. I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea ... of what to do.
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#95. Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?
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#97. <"To bewitch" is to me always slightly artificial as it is always put on
whereas witchery is a form of naturalness that some people can't help, and the world judges that they don't create it ... > November 15 1967 memo to Mrs. Loew Gross re "THE ROMANTIC POINT OF VIEW
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#98. Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
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#99. I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.
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#100. I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it right across the page and down the side, crop it, cut it in half, combine it with something else ... do something with it. You've got to make something out of it.
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