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| The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos. ~ Author Unknown |
| 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, "Walking Art: Tattoos," |
| Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past. ~ Jack London |
| Women, don’t get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you’re twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor. ~ Billy Elmer |
| You may lose your most valuable property through misfortune in various ways. You may lose your house, your wife and other treasures. But of your moko, you cannot be deprived except by death. It will be your ornament and companion until your last day. ~ Netana Whakaari of Waimana |
| I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I’m thinking, okay, here’s a gal who’s capable of making a decision she’ll regret in the future. ~ Richard Jeni |
| For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin. ~ Cher |
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Ink to paper is thoughtful
Ink to flesh, hard-core.
If Shakespeare were a tattooist
We’d appreciate body art more.
~ Carrie Latet |
| A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods. ~ Iban Proverb |
| Good tattoos aren’t cheap and cheap tattoos aren’t good. ~ Author Unknown |
| You think it, I ink it. ~ Saying of tattooists |
| Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. ~ Jon Anderson, "Epidermal Dalis," |
| Inking without a plan gives Booth freedom to explore the desires of those seated in his chair, he says, to feed off their energy, allowing his clients’ demons to help guide the needle. ~ Joshua Lipton, about tattoo artist Paul Booth, "Bad Skin," |
| [P]rimitive tribes were certainly convinced that the spirit, having escaped from the body at death, retained a replica of its earthly tenement. They therefore used tattoo marks as a means of identification in the next world and a passport to future happiness. ~ Ronald Scutt |
| The perfect tattoo… the one I believe we are all struggling toward… is the one that turned the jackass into a zebra. ~ Cliff Raven |
| The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation. ~ James Cook |
| Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves. ~ Charles Darwin, |
| When the designs are chosen with care, tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul. ~ Michelle Delio[A] genuine tattoo…. tells a story. I like stories and tattoos |