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

Diana Vreeland

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
Socialite
Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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The personality is a work of art.
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For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality.
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God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.
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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.
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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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Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
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I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!
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I think i always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give'em what they never knew they wanted.
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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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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The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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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.
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Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. … It's there for your pleasure.
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What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
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This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.
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Where would fashion be without literature?
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