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I suppose it's easier for most writers to create and vivify characters of their own gender.
— Susan Vreeland
It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.
— Susan Vreeland
Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
— Diana Vreeland
What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
— Diana Vreeland
Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
— Diana Vreeland
God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no diamonds. He gave them style.
— Diana Vreeland
Look long enough, out or in, and you'll be glad you are who you are.
— Susan Vreeland
Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
— Diana Vreeland
Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
— Diana Vreeland
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.
— Diana Vreeland
When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
— Diana Vreeland
I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
— Diana Vreeland
No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
— Diana Vreeland
You gotta have style to get up in the morning
— Diana Vreeland
We are not looking for endless varietywe are looking for fashion. — Diana Vreeland
People who eat white bread have no dreams.
— Diana Vreeland
If it's not there in fashion, fantasize it,
— Diana Vreeland
I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.
— Diana Vreeland
The hottest thing in the world is to wear pants with stockings.
— Diana Vreeland
Without emotion there is no beauty
— Diana Vreeland
The only thing people are interested in is people.
— Diana Vreeland
You can see and feel everything in clothes.
— Diana Vreeland
Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.
— Diana Vreeland
The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.
— Diana Vreeland
I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.
— Diana Vreeland
No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.
— Diana Vreeland
Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.
— Susan Vreeland
If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it.
— Susan Vreeland
Water is God's tranquilizer,
— Diana Vreeland
Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race.
— Susan Vreeland
I've come to think that if doing something simple or silly can give a person pleasure, then, by God, do it
— Susan Vreeland
The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.
— Diana Vreeland
It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
— Diana Vreeland
Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
— Diana Vreeland
Erasmus says if you must be hanged let it be on fair gallows.
— Susan Vreeland
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
— Diana Vreeland
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.
— Diana Vreeland
Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world - and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.
— Diana Vreeland
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.
— Diana Vreeland
No matter where life takes you,' she said, 'the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground.
— Susan Vreeland
This world without a leopard ... I mean, who would want to be here?!
— Diana Vreeland
Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
— Diana Vreeland
You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
— Diana Vreeland
I think your imagination is your reality
— Diana Vreeland
The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
— Diana Vreeland
What the world calls failure, I call learning.
— Susan Vreeland
If I don't love the feelings I have while creating those windows, I'm only working for coin and not from soul.
— Susan Vreeland
Where would fashion be without literature?
— Diana Vreeland
I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!
— Diana Vreeland
I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.
— Susan Vreeland
Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
— Diana Vreeland
Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
— Diana Vreeland
When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.
— Diana Vreeland
He had a thought that amused him. "Figures, still life, landscape, AND an animal! Zola, eat your hat!" he bellowed.
— Susan Vreeland
Everybody works ... That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.
— Susan Vreeland
People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they would never know her.
— Susan Vreeland
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.
— Diana Vreeland
At this stage of life, he'd better just lean into love, because if he fell, he feared he might break a hip.
— Susan Vreeland
Lighting is everything in a color.
— Diana Vreeland
I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring ...
— Diana Vreeland
Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can't think all the time.
— Diana Vreeland
Exaggeration is my only reality.
— Diana Vreeland
I once heard someone say, I shall die very young. How young? I don't know. Maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.
— Diana Vreeland
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.
— Diana Vreeland
When I was married, I didn't work. When I had my children, I didn't work. But before that, I'd work for Diana Vreeland at 'Harper's Bazaar.'
— Lee Radziwill
I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress.
— Diana Vreeland
Pink is the navy blue of India.
— Diana Vreeland
Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
— Diana Vreeland
Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
— Diana Vreeland
To live and move and have her being in a flow of blue.
— Susan Vreeland
You think because I am her mother I can remake her?
— Susan Vreeland
I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
— Diana Vreeland
A woman can't stay hard when all around her is loveliness.
— Susan Vreeland
No one knows how hard one works.
— Diana Vreeland
When I see Tiffany windows in churches across the United States, I get a sense of spiritual upliftment from that.
— Susan Vreeland
I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea ... of what to do.
— Diana Vreeland
There is so much strife and tension in the world that I find the silent world of paintings from the past both hopeful and healing.
— Susan Vreeland
The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness.
— Diana Vreeland
I've never met a leopard print I didn't like.
— Diana Vreeland
Allowing beauty a place in the soul was a powerful antidote to the stress and strain of mortal life.
— Susan Vreeland
There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.
— Diana Vreeland
Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality.
— Diana Vreeland
If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
— Diana Vreeland
I could say diamonds are a girl's best friend, and that never changes. But the taste for art did change.
— Susan Vreeland
Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.
— Gianni Versace
Too much good taste can be boring
— Diana Vreeland
