Vidal Sassoon famous quotes

If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Goodbye #Teaching #Years

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.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Eye #Looks #Wonderful

If you look good, we look good.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Looks

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Essence #Next #Be Good

You must always do what you feel is right.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Feels

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.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Beautiful #Cutting #People

It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#People #Crafts #Enough

You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Secret #Crafts #Benefits

If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Style #Want #Purpose

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

#Cutting #Ideas #Hair

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.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Eye #Hair #Way

For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Hair #Elements #Architecture

Hair is another name for sex.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Sex #Names #Hair

I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Thinking #Elbows #Would Be

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

#Assuming #Back To Work

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Inspiration #Hair #My Thoughts

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

#Creativity #People

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.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Beautiful #Cutting #Thinking

Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Holiday #Capri #Destination

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.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Cutting #Perfect #Discipline

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Views #Said #Point Of View

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Football #Morality #Obligation

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.'
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Girl #Nice #Clients

To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Mean #Hair #Important

You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Mother #Winning

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.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Our Society #Realizing #Being Human

I was a bit of a rebel.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Rebel

It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Sorry #Drunk #Okay

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Mother #Years #Seven

My greatest regret is selling my company.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Regret #Selling #Company

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.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Giving #People #Advice

Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Fashion #Designer #Favourite

If you don't look good, we don't look good.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Looks

I'm a great jazz fan.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Fans #Jazz

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.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Opportunity #Architect

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Teaching #Essence #Numbers

Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Passion #Expression #Self

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Art #Hair #Form

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Home #Years #Profession

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.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Soccer #Sports #Kids

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Views #Important #Judaism

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Mother #Would Be #Premonition

A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Girl #Cutting #Opportunity

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.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Father #Ran

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.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Art #Color #Years

I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Cutting #Thinking #Cities

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.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Roots #Tragedy #Done

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.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Mother #Father #Home

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.'
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Morning #Night #Bruises

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

#Proud #Might #Chairs

I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Born

'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Watches #Pianist

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

#Mother #Father #Holes

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

#People #Crafts #Enough