Quotes from Diana Vreeland

Too much good taste can be very boring.

It's not about the dress you wear, but it's about the life you lead in the dress.

There's only one thing in life, and that's the continual renewal of inspiration.

Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can't think all the time.

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

I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress.

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.

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.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

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.

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

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

What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

All my life I've pursued the perfect red.

Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

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

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.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

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

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

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.

I never felt comfortable about my looks until I married Reed Vreeland. I believe in love at first sight because that's what it was. I knew the moment our eyes met that we would marry.

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