Top 53 Vidal Sassoon Quotes

#1. During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.

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#2. It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.

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#3. I'm a great jazz fan.

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#4. Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.

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#5. It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.

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#6. Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.

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#7. To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

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#8. Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.

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#9. So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

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#10. If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.

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#11. I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

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#12. When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.

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#13. When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself.

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#14. There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'

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#15. My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

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#16. If you look good, we look good.

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#17. I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.

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#18. Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.

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#19. The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.

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#20. It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

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#21. Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.

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#22. 'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.

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#23. Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

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#24. If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

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#25. I was a bit of a rebel.

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#26. Bring out the eyes.

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#27. I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

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#28. Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

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#29. We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.

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#30. The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

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#31. If you don't look good, we don't look good.

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#32. For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

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#33. You must always do what you feel is right.

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#34. You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

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#35. As stylists, we're groundshakers and daymakers. I was always in hair.

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#36. Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

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#37. To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.

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#38. Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.

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#39. I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

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#40. Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.

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#41. Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.

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#42. I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.

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#43. Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.

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#44. I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.

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#45. My greatest regret is selling my company.

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#46. My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.

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#47. For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.

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#48. I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

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#49. From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

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#50. I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

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#51. I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

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#52. My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

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#53. You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.

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