Diana Vreeland

Pleasure is everything.

— Diana Vreeland

Too much good taste can be boring

— Diana Vreeland

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

— Diana Vreeland

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

— Diana Vreeland

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

— Diana Vreeland

You can see and feel everything in clothes.

— Diana Vreeland

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

— Diana Vreeland

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

— Diana Vreeland

People who eat white bread have no dreams.

— Diana Vreeland

Lighting is everything in a color.

— 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

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

— Diana Vreeland

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.

— Diana Vreeland

I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.

— Diana Vreeland

“We are not looking for endless variety--we are looking for fashion." February 10, 1967, Memo re HAIR ON SITTINGS”

— Diana Vreeland

Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.

— Diana Vreeland

I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.

— Diana Vreeland

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

— Diana Vreeland

Vogue always did stand for people's lives. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in…

— Diana Vreeland

A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to make life…

— Diana Vreeland

You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love…

— 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…

— Diana Vreeland

Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was…

— Diana Vreeland

I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone…

— Diana Vreeland

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,…

— Diana Vreeland

I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men.…

— Diana Vreeland

“Beauty is in all beings that love and are loved, animals and children, and if older women have it, it is because…

— Diana Vreeland

I don't think anyone has ever been in a better place at a better time than I was when I was editor…

— Diana Vreeland

If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body & good…

— Diana Vreeland

One is born with good taste. It's very hard to acquire. You can acquire the patina of taste. But what Elsie Mendl…

— Diana Vreeland

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

— Diana Vreeland

All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if…

— Diana Vreeland

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

— Diana Vreeland

To be contented—that’s for the cows.

— Diana Vreeland

You gotta have style to get up in the morning

— Diana Vreeland

No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.

— Diana Vreeland

All creations demand greenery of spirt. 

— Diana Vreeland

“I adore that pink, it is the navy blue of India!”

— Diana Vreeland

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

— Diana Vreeland

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

— Diana Vreeland