Diana Vreeland Quotes

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

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

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

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.

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?

This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them.

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

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

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

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

I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever.

I think your imagination is your reality

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

It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.

The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness.

Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.

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

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!

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

I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.

I adore artifice. I always have.

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

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.

Where would fashion be without literature?

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.

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.

If it's not there in fashion, fantasize it.

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

I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself. I also believe that energy is habit -- which can be created quite easily. In other words, use your energy and more energy flows and then it is very hard to stop it -- as if one would ever want to!

Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality.

I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.

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

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

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.

Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.

This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.

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

I think i always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. "Give'em what they never knew they wanted".

No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.

Too much good taste can be boring