Vidal Sassoon Quotes

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• 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.

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  Eye, Looks, Wonderful

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

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  Passion, Self, Expression

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

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  Cutting, Thinking, Cities

  Vidal Sassoon, Gerald Battle-Welch, Luca P. Marighetti, Werner Möller (1992). “Vidal Sassoon und das Bauhaus”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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

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  Art, Hair, Form

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

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  Advice, Way, Good Advice

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• 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.

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  Goodbye, Teacher, Work

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• If you look good, we look good.

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  Looks, Ifs

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• 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.

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  Roots, Tragedy, Done

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

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  Hair, Elements, Architecture

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• You must always do what you feel is right.

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  Feels

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Cutting, Thinking

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

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  Cutting, Ideas, Hair

  "The Surprising Story Of The ’Anti-Fascist Warrior Hairdresser’ Vidal Sassoon" by Tiffany Gabbay, www.businessinsider.com. May 9, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Teaching, Essence, Numbers

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• 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.

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  Cutting, Discipline, Perfect

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

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  Style, Purpose, Want

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• Hair is another name for sex.

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  Sex, Hair, Names

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

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  Inspiration, Hair, Hair Stylist

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

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  Essence, Next, Be Good

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

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  Secret, Benefits, Crafts

  "Vidal Sassoon: Fresh Hair On 'Fresh Air'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 10, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Cutting, People

  "Vidal Sassoon Was an Actual Person" by Michael Schulman, www.newyorker.com. May 10, 2012.

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

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  Mean, Hair, Important

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

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  Hair, Stylist

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

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  Assuming, Back To Work, Going Back To Work

  "The Surprising Story Of The ’Anti-Fascist Warrior Hairdresser’ Vidal Sassoon" by Tiffany Gabbay, www.businessinsider.com. May 9, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Art, Color, Years

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• 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.

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  Eye, Hair, Way

  "Vidal Sassoon Was an Actual Person" by Michael Schulman, www.newyorker.com. May 10, 2012.

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