Top 40 Vidal Sassoon Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

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

— Vidal Sassoon

3. “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.”

— Vidal Sassoon

4. “If you look good, we look good.”

— Vidal Sassoon

5. “Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.”

— Vidal Sassoon

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

— Vidal Sassoon

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

— Vidal Sassoon

8. “As stylists, we’re groundshakers and daymakers. I was always in hair.”

— Vidal Sassoon

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

— Vidal Sassoon

10. “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

11. “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

12. “Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.”

— Vidal Sassoon

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

— Vidal Sassoon

14. “For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.”

— Vidal Sassoon

15. “My greatest regret is selling my company.”

— Vidal Sassoon

16. “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

17. “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

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

— Vidal Sassoon

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

— Vidal Sassoon

20. “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

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

— Vidal Sassoon

22. “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

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

— Vidal Sassoon

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

— Vidal Sassoon

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

— Vidal Sassoon

26. “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

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

— Vidal Sassoon

28. “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.”

— Vidal Sassoon

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

— Vidal Sassoon

30. “Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.”

— Vidal Sassoon

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

— Vidal Sassoon

32. “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

33. “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

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

— Vidal Sassoon

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

— Vidal Sassoon

36. “Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.”

— Vidal Sassoon

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

— Vidal Sassoon

38. “I’m a great jazz fan.”

— Vidal Sassoon

39. “My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.”

— Vidal Sassoon

40. “It’s not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.”

— Vidal Sassoon

41. “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.”

— Vidal Sassoon

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

— Vidal Sassoon

43. “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.”

— Vidal Sassoon

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

— Vidal Sassoon

45. “I was a bit of a rebel.”

— Vidal Sassoon

46. “I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.”

— Vidal Sassoon

47. “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

48. “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