Diana Vreeland Quotes - Page 3

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.

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!

God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.

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

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

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

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

I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.

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.

Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.

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.

You can see and feel everything in clothes.

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

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

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.

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

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

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