Diana Vreeland Quotes - Page 5

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• The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls

  Diana Vreeland

  Girl, Two, Gertrude

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• If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body & good carriage. You held your head high, & you were a beauty You knew how to water-ski, & how to take a jet plane fast in the morning, arrive anywhere, & be anyone when you got off.

  Diana Vreeland

  Morning, Differences, Long

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

  Diana Vreeland

  Age, My Birthday, Remember

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• 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!

  Diana Vreeland

  Believe, Mind, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.

  Diana Vreeland

  Intelligent, Wish, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

  Diana Vreeland

  Tables, Dinner, Poor

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• No one knows how hard one works.

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  Know How, Knows, Hard

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Water is God's tranquilizer.

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  Water

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.

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  Passion, Fire, Burning

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• I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.

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  School, World

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• I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s not for everyone...But I lived in that world, not only during my years in the magazines business but for years before, because I was always of that world-- at least in my imagination.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Years, Luxury

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• I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.

  Diana Vreeland

  Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Style, Originality

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• I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.

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  Fashion, Littles, Tailors

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'

  Diana Vreeland

  Space, Empowering, Women Empowerment

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• The only thing people are interested in is people.

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  People

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• I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

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  Book, Phones, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Hands, Judging, Way

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

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Sweaters, Flattering

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

  Diana Vreeland

  Bored, Making Money, Wanted

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

  Diana Vreeland

  Artist, Sake, Photographer

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

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  World, Fame, Form

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Cutting, Blow

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• Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

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  Mysterious, Fragrance, Senses

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• A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever.

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  Long, Forever, Goes On

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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