Vidal Sassoon Quotes

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 mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

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.

If you look good, we look good.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I was a bit of a rebel.

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.

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.

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

Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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