Diana Vreeland - Life Quotes

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

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 the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later.

Diana Vreeland

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

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All my life I've pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It's exactly as if I'd said, 'I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple'—they have no idea what I'm talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child's cap in any Renaissance portrait.

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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.

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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

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

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