Quote

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

Diana Vreeland

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Went
Money
Wanted
Work
Make
Bored

More quotes by Diana Vreeland

Image
You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.
Diana Vreeland
Image
I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
Diana Vreeland
Image
My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
Diana Vreeland
Image
I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.
Diana Vreeland
Image
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.
Diana Vreeland
Image
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
Image
If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.
Diana Vreeland
Image
This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.
Diana Vreeland
Image
I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
Diana Vreeland
Image
Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
Diana Vreeland
Image
There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
Diana Vreeland
Image
When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
Diana Vreeland
Image
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.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Where would fashion be without literature?
Diana Vreeland