Diana Vreeland Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

  Diana Vreeland

  Inspirational, Mean, Passion

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• In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.

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  Rooms

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

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  Ideas, Giving, Waiting

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

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  Thinking, Might, Today

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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

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  Class, Dull, Boring

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• 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.

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  Fashion, Morning, Style

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

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  Color, Black, World

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.

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  Dance, Dream, Dancing

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• 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!

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  Believe, Use, Want

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• 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.

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  Oil, Style, Diamond

  "D.V".

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• 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

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  Opposites, Lunch, People

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

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  Dream, Technique

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

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  Mad, Ballet, Courses

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

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  Morning, Style, Bed

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

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  Memories, Thinking, Scent

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• 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.

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  People, One Day, Next

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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

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  Style, Helping, Situation

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

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  Fashion, Editors

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• You can see and feel everything in clothes.

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  Clothes, Feels

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• 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.

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  Buddhist, Children, Color

  Diana Vreeland (1985). “D.V.”, Vintage

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

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  Leopards, Mets, Print

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• 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.

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  Lying, Interesting, Different

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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

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  Mean, Leopards, World

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

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  Talking, West, Boring

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• Where would fashion be without literature?

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  Fashion, Literature

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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