Vidal Sassoon Quotes Page 2

“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.”

“My greatest regret is selling my company.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.'”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“You must always do what you feel is right.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”