Diana Vreeland Quotes

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

I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring.

There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!

No one knows how hard one works.

I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Lighting is everything in a color.

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.

All my life I've pursued the perfect red.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

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

A new dress doesn’t get you anywhere. It's the life you’re living in the dress.

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

The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that the rest really comes from it.