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Vidal Sassoon Quotes

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

– 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

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

– Vidal Sassoon

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

– Vidal Sassoon

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

– 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

Bring out the eyes.

– Vidal Sassoon

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

– Vidal Sassoon

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

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

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

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

– Vidal Sassoon

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

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

– Vidal Sassoon

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

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

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

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

– Vidal Sassoon

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

– Vidal Sassoon

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

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

– Vidal Sassoon

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

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

You must always do what you feel is right.

– Vidal Sassoon

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

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

– Vidal Sassoon