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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."

Vidal Sassoon on Art

More quotes about Art

• "True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."

  Albert Einstein on Art

• "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

  Vincent Van Gogh on Art

• "The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."

  Abraham Lincoln on Art

• "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

  Aristotle on Art

• "A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

  Oscar Wilde on Art

More quotes by Vidal Sassoon

• "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."

• "I believe in the equality of man and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy."

• "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."

• "I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it."

• "It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself."