Tattoo quotes

Tattoo quotes and sayings

Tattoos are like stories, they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. ~ Pamela Anderson

Tattoos can denote the transition from childhood to young adulthood. It can denote the transition to reproductive availability or the transition from adolescent to warrior. ~ Anthony Napoleon

To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles. ~ John Mason Brown

What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one. ~ Ashley Scott

True Love is like a tattoo. It hurts when it bleeds but it feels good within & last forever till the end of your time.

Tattoos tell stories of crime and passion, punishment and regret. They express an outlaw, antiauthoritarian point of view and communicate a romantic solidarity among society's outcasts. ~ Douglas Kent Hall

The perfect tattoo... the one I believe we are all struggling toward... is the one that turned the jackass into a zebra. ~ Raven, Cliff

My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist. ~ Johnny Depp

Tattooing is often a magical rite in the more traditional cultures, and the tattooist is respected as a priest or shaman." ~ Michelle Delio

Whenever missionaries encountered tattooing they eradicated it. ~ Gilbert, Steve

The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos.

The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different. ~Margo DeMello

A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition. ~ V. Vale and Andrea Juno

For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference. ~ Margo DeMello

There is no "underground" community, no dark den of drunken sailors initiating themselves into manhood via cheap, ill-conceived exercises in bodily perforation; it's just a group of people who delight in using their bodies as billboards. ~ Joanne McCubrey