Vidal Sassoon Quotes

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you look good, we look good.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

You must always do what you feel is right.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

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

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

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

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

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

I was a bit of a rebel.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

My greatest regret is selling my company.

I'm a great jazz fan.

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.

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.

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

Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.

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.'

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

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

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.

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