Diana Vreeland Quotations | Page 2

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

People who eat white bread have no dreams.

Where would fashion be without literature?

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

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

The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!

Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'

The only thing people are interested in is people.

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

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

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.

I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination.

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

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.

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

I adore artifice. I always have.

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

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.

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

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

Too much good taste can be boring

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

Exaggeration is my only reality.

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

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.

Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.

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

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.

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

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

The best thing about London is Paris,

Without emotion there is no beauty

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

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.

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

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.

Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.

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

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

I adore that pink! It's the navy blue of India!

He knows the secrets of the sea, of the woods and of the vineyard. They are simple and natural worlds, beautiful and varied. He prefers them to the concrete and hard worlds built by other men. Ideas blossom very quickly, and then they are very painstakingly realized and evolved. His many harvests of thought go on and on, and the origins emanate from things as simple as a golden bluebell. Like a positive parent he gives love at the moment of creation, bowing to the beautiful things that he originates.