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The personality is a work of art.
Diana Vreeland
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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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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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I think your imagination is your reality
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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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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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The best thing about London is Paris.
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One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...
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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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When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.
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I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself... I suppose that is what you call a loner.
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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
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Without emotion there is no beauty
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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.
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I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.
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