Top 100 Vreeland Quotes
#1. The woman was Diana Vreeland, the high priestess of fashion and legendary fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar and editor-in-chief of Vogue. Dana paused, eyes wide. Well, perhaps she was a bit star-struck after all.
Lynn Steward
#2. 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,
Diana Vreeland
#3. Don't think of Diana Vreeland's memoir as a book; it's more like a lunch. A bit of souffle, a glass of champagne, some green grapes - light, bubbly and slightly tart - all served up by an egocentric but inventive hostess.
Cathleen McGuigan
#4. When I was married, I didn't work. When I had my children, I didn't work. But before that, I'd work for Diana Vreeland at 'Harper's Bazaar.'
Lee Radziwill
#5. Maintainence is elegance. Diana Vreeland. vogue magazine 1984.
Diana Vreeland
#6. The crisis prompted the issue of emergency paper money: in Britain, £1 and 10s Treasury notes; in the United States, the emergency currency that banks were authorized to issue under the Aldrich-Vreeland Act of 1908.46 Then, as now, the authorities reacted to a liquidity crisis by printing money.
Niall Ferguson
#7. I wish I could swap closets with Diana Vreeland, but I think only my left thigh would fit into her clothing.
Catherine Martin
#8. Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.
Gianni Versace
#9. To feel the grace of God in a painting of the dear, quiet commonness of a domestic interior, or in a landscape, seascape, cityscape, trains us to feel the grace of God in the thing itself in situ.
Susan Vreeland
#11. A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?
Diana Vreeland
#13. If I don't love the feelings I have while creating those windows, I'm only working for coin and not from soul.
Susan Vreeland
#15. Maybe that's what love was
walking willingly into the unknown for the sake of the other.
Susan Vreeland
#16. A hard choice. Water or books. Hmm. One could always have wine instead.
Susan Vreeland
#17. The company, Tiffany Studios, ended up in bankruptcy in 1930 - early '30s.
Susan Vreeland
#18. This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.
Diana Vreeland
#19. We are not looking for endless variety
we are looking for fashion.
Diana Vreeland
#20. There is so much strife and tension in the world that I find the silent world of paintings from the past both hopeful and healing.
Susan Vreeland
#21. Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
Diana Vreeland
#22. For a century, everyone assumed that the iconic Tiffany lamps were conceived and designed by that American master of stained glass. Not so! It was a woman!
Susan Vreeland
#23. Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.
Diana Vreeland
#24. It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
Diana Vreeland
#25. Naturally, I've always been mad about clothes. You don't get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.
Diana Vreeland
#26. You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
Diana Vreeland
#27. 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.
Diana Vreeland
#29. He had a thought that amused him. "Figures, still life, landscape, AND an animal! Zola, eat your hat!" he bellowed.
Susan Vreeland
#30. 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.
Diana Vreeland
#31. I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings.
Susan Vreeland
#35. Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
Diana Vreeland
#36. When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.
Diana Vreeland
#37. The only thing people are interested in is people.
Diana Vreeland
#38. Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
Diana Vreeland
#39. 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
Diana Vreeland
#40. Work is love made plain, whether man's work or woman's work.
Susan Vreeland
#41. When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was art and creativity within.
Susan Vreeland
#42. 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!
Diana Vreeland
#43. 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.
Diana Vreeland
#44. You think because I am her mother I can remake her?
Susan Vreeland
#45. I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.
Susan Vreeland
#46. The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
Diana Vreeland
#47. Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
Diana Vreeland
#48. All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.
Diana Vreeland
#49. I think when you're young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows and it all comes together.
Diana Vreeland
#50. What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
Diana Vreeland
#51. Erasmus says if you must be hanged let it be on fair gallows.
Susan Vreeland
#52. 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.
Diana Vreeland
#53. The painting showed she did not yet know that lives end abruptly, that much of living is repetition and separation, that buttons forever need re-sewing no matter how ferociously one works the thread, that nice things almost happen.
Susan Vreeland
#54. 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.
Diana Vreeland
#55. It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.
Susan Vreeland
#56. In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.
Diana Vreeland
#57. Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did more to emancipate women than any other single thing. The bicycle was linked in the psyches of women at that time as a symbol of practical emancipation. Women could go places, wear their skirts shorter to manage the bicycle, and be independent.
Susan Vreeland
#60. I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
Diana Vreeland
#61. Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life ... It's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground.
Susan Vreeland
#62. The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
Diana Vreeland
#63. 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!
Diana Vreeland
#64. It's not about the dress you wear, but it's about the life you lead in the dress.
Diana Vreeland
#65. Vogue always did stand for people's lives. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later.
Diana Vreeland
#66. The idea of being close to where pigments were mined - that's the first thing in making a painting, getting the material. And what's the last thing you do in making a painting? You put a frame around it.
Susan Vreeland
#67. 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
Diana Vreeland
#69. 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.
Diana Vreeland
#70. 'Luncheon of the Boating Party,' owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty.
Susan Vreeland
#71. I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
Diana Vreeland
#72. Everybody works ... That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.
Susan Vreeland
#73. Archival and published history does not always record personal relationships of historical figures, so characters must be invented to allow the subject to reveal their interior realm through intimate interaction.
Susan Vreeland
#74. I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!
Diana Vreeland
#75. Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. I've always been interested in it, although I never pursued it as a career or even as an avocation.
Susan Vreeland
#76. Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
Diana Vreeland
#77. Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion.
Susan Vreeland
#78. No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work.
Susan Vreeland
#79. God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no diamonds. He gave them style.
Diana Vreeland
#80. Re: cutting glass ... You have to be in command of the glass, telling it where to release its hold on itself. Just like life. Otherwise it will splinter.
Susan Vreeland
#81. The hottest thing in the world is to wear pants with stockings.
Diana Vreeland
#82. 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.
Diana Vreeland
#83. Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality.
Diana Vreeland
#85. Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can't think all the time.
Diana Vreeland
#86. 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.
Diana Vreeland
#87. Landscape is more than flat land covered by floodwater, the seeping of peat bogs, a river of liquid pewter viewed from a sentry tower. It's an influence on what a person values, what she is willing to sacrifice or argue for.
Susan Vreeland
#88. How boring to copy the past
with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.
Diana Vreeland
#89. Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
Diana Vreeland
#90. We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.
Diana Vreeland
#92. I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.
Diana Vreeland
#93. I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring ...
Diana Vreeland
#94. Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
Diana Vreeland
#97. The value of writing about art is its effect on the imagination. Paintings allow us to inhabit another culture, place, and time period, and address the issues of those time periods that resonate with our own time.
Susan Vreeland
#98. 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.
Diana Vreeland
#99. Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
Diana Vreeland
#100. A woman can't stay hard when all around her is loveliness.
Susan Vreeland
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