Vidal Sassoon Quotes

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• To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
• During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
• Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
• From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
• 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…
• Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in…
• My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.
• 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…
• It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.
• 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…
• I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.
• For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.
• Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.
• 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…
• If you look good, we look good.
• To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.
• Hair is another name for sex.
• I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
• 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…
• I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

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