Vidal Sassoon quotes
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“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.”
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“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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“The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?”
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“You must always do what you feel is right.”
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“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 SassoonSource : "Vidal Sassoon Was an Actual Person" by Michael Schulman, www.newyorker.com. May 10, 2012.
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“It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.”
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“You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.”
-- Vidal SassoonSource : "Vidal Sassoon: Fresh Hair On 'Fresh Air'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 10, 2011.
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“If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.”
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“My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.”
-- Vidal SassoonSource : "The Surprising Story Of The ’Anti-Fascist Warrior Hairdresser’ Vidal Sassoon" by Tiffany Gabbay, www.businessinsider.com. May 9, 2012.
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“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 SassoonSource : "Vidal Sassoon Was an Actual Person" by Michael Schulman, www.newyorker.com. May 10, 2012.
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“For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.”
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“I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.”
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“Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.”
-- Vidal SassoonSource : "The Surprising Story Of The ’Anti-Fascist Warrior Hairdresser’ Vidal Sassoon" by Tiffany Gabbay, www.businessinsider.com. May 9, 2012.
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“I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.”
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“I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.”
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“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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“Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.”
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“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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“From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.”
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“Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.”
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“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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“To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.”
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“You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.”
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“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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“It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.”
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“My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.”
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“My greatest regret is selling my company.”
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“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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“Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.”
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“If you don't look good, we don't look good.”
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“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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“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.”
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“Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.”
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“To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.”
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“I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.”
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“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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“Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.”
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“My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.”
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“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.”
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“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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“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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“I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.”
-- Vidal SassoonSource : Vidal Sassoon, Gerald Battle-Welch, Luca P. Marighetti, Werner Möller (1992). “Vidal Sassoon und das Bauhaus”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.”
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“'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.”
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“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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“Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.”
-- Vidal Sassoon
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