To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.
Vidal SassoonRead
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.
Interpretation
This quote celebrates the transformative power of hairstyling and artistic creativity.
Vidal Sassoon emphasizes the artistry involved in hairstyling, suggesting that a skilled stylist can dramatically alter a person's appearance by applying creative techniques. This not only highlights the talent of the stylist but also reflects the profound impact that aesthetics can have on individual identity and self-expression.
In practice
During a fashion show, to emphasize the role of hairstyling in personal expression.
To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.
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.
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 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.
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.
Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.
The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.
Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.
Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.
I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me - but the process of actually crafting it is essential.
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