Diana Vreeland famous quotes

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Fashion #Real #Life Changing

You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Inspirational #Beautiful #Attractive

Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Thinking #Thoughtfulness #Manners

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.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Bored #Would Be #Becoming

The best thing about London is Paris,
-- Diana Vreeland

#Paris #London

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

#Beautiful #Clothes #Perfect

Without emotion there is no beauty
-- Diana Vreeland

#Emotion

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

#Dream #Home #Thinking

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Elegance #Well Dressed #Refusal

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

#Fashion #Nice #Thinking

Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Fashion #Civilization #Shoes

How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Past #Magnificence #Today

I adore artifice. I always have.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Adore #Artifice

I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Believe #Energy #Grows

Exaggeration is my only reality.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Reality #Exaggeration

In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Rooms

Too much good taste can be boring
-- Diana Vreeland

#Too Much #Taste #Boring

No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Luxury #Spirit #Century

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Girl #Fashion #Training

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
-- Diana Vreeland

#Ideas #Facts #Terrible

There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Inspiration #Renewal

Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Girl #Emotion #Possibility

Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Worry #Facts #Projects

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.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Morning #Differences #Long

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Important #Atoms #Bombs

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Good Life #Want #Very Good

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

#Girl #Art #Curls

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.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Lying #Interesting #Different

The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!
-- Diana Vreeland

#Talking #West #Boring

Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
-- Diana Vreeland

#Mad #Ballet

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Beautiful #Blue #Jeans

This world without a leopard…I mean, who would want to be here?!
-- Diana Vreeland

#Mean #Leopards #World

Where would fashion be without literature?
-- Diana Vreeland

#Fashion #Literature

Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Fashion #World #Release

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...
-- Diana Vreeland

#Rain #Cleansing #Calming

Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray...
-- Diana Vreeland

#Color #Black #World

I think your imagination is your reality
-- Diana Vreeland

#Reality #Thinking #Imagination

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.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Party #Home #Want

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

#Mean #People #Dresses

Most people haven't got a point of view; they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Views #People #Needs

We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Needs #Taste

If it's not there in fashion, fantasize it,
-- Diana Vreeland

#Fashion

I've never met a leopard print I didn't like.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Leopards #Mets #Print

People who eat white bread have no dreams.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Dream #White #People

Pink is the navy blue of India.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Blue #Navy #India

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.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Witty #Long #Laughing

When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Fashion #Fascination #Cracks

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?
-- Diana Vreeland

#Leopards #World #Want

I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Mean #Dresses

I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Fashion #Editors

You can see and feel everything in clothes.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Clothes #Feels

I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Dream #Thinking #Imagination

The body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better.
-- Diana Vreeland

#People #Body #Fit

Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Ideas #Giving #Waiting

Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Clothes #Infatuated

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Paris #Firsts #Born

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Clothes #Evening

God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no diamonds. He gave them style.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Oil #Style #Diamond

All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Buddhist #Children #Talking

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

#Passion #Mean #Fire

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

#Inspirational #Rain #Thinking

What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Thinking #People #Dresses

I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. I think I always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give ‘em what they never knew they wanted.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Jobs #Thinking #Views

It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Dresses #Lead In

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Fashion #Vanity #Narcissism

A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Wings #Personality #Photograph

If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Passion #Fire #Burning

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity,
-- Diana Vreeland

#Peanut Butter #Peanuts #Christianity

Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Boring #Fine #Vulgar

I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Interviews #Great Things

You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Morning #Style #Bed

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?
-- Diana Vreeland

#Gay #Glasses #Color

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

#Opposites #Lunch #People

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Book

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.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Fashion #Littles #Tailors

Pleasure is everything.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Pleasure

Every girl in the world should have geisha training
-- Diana Vreeland

#Girl #Training #World

Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Mysterious #Fragrance

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Hell #Truth Is #Bigs

Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Class #Dull #Boring