Top 141 Quotes & Sayings by Diana Vreeland
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American editor Diana Vreeland.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Pink is the navy blue of India.
What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
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.
Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.
Parents, you know, can be terrible.
You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.
Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.
I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.
Exaggeration is my only reality.
Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
The body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better.
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.
Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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?
Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.
The best thing about London is Paris.
There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.
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.
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.
We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.
Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination.
No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
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...
I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray.
Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
Without emotion there is no beauty
Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.
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.
The personality is a work of art.
If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
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.
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.
Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
You gotta have style to get up in the morning
I adore artifice. I always have.
There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.
The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness.
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.
I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress.
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.
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.
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.
How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.
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.
I think your imagination is your reality
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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