Vidal Sassoon Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
-
“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 -
“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 -
“The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?”
-- Vidal Sassoon -
“You must always do what you feel is right.”
-- Vidal Sassoon -
“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 -
“It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.”
-- Vidal Sassoon -
“You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.”
-- Vidal Sassoon -
“If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.”
-- Vidal Sassoon -
“My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.”
-- Vidal Sassoon -
“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 -
“For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.”
-- Vidal Sassoon -
“I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.”
-- Vidal Sassoon -
“Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.”
-- Vidal Sassoon -
“I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.”
-- Vidal Sassoon -
“I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.”
-- Vidal Sassoon -
“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 -
“Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.”
-- Vidal Sassoon -
“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 -
“From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.”
-- Vidal Sassoon -
“Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.”
-- Vidal Sassoon -
“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 -
“To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.”
-- Vidal Sassoon -
“You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.”
-- Vidal Sassoon -
“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 -
“It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.”
-- Vidal Sassoon -
“My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.”
-- Vidal Sassoon -
“My greatest regret is selling my company.”
-- Vidal Sassoon
You may also like:
-
Andre Previn
Pianist -
Ava Gardner
Actress -
Coco Chanel
Fashion designer -
David Bailey
Photographer -
Diane Keaton
Film actress -
Frank Sinatra
Singer -
Grace Coddington
Model -
John Cassavetes
Actor -
Mary Quant
Fashion designer -
Mia Farrow
Actress -
Namie Amuro
Singer -
Pierre Cardin
Fashion designer -
Robert Redford
Actor -
Roman Polanski
Film director -
Ronan Farrow
Activist -
Rudi Gernreich
Fashion designer -
Tabatha Coffey
Hairstylist -
Twiggy
Model -
Woody Allen
Film producer -
Yves Saint Laurent
Fashion designer