Diana Vreeland Quotes - Page 6

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

I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!

Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

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 think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it right across the page and down the side, crop it, cut it in half, combine it with something else... do something with it. You've got to make something out of it.

Don't you loathe the word "workaholic"? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!

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.

Pleasure is everything.

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

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.

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

All creations demand greenery of spirt. 

Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.