Art Tattoo Quotes

#1. A tattoo is art and not a possession as love is beauty and intangible. A tattoo is a promise, not an accessory.

Danielle Valenilla

#2. Having previously graduated from a 2-year commercial arts class, I thought that commercial illustration was the best way to make a living doing art. But the more tattoos that I did, the more I realized what artistic career potential tattooing had and I enjoyed it.

William Webb

#3. Hair is just one way of expressing ourselves. We express ourselves through how we dress or through tattoos or body art or piercings or cosmetic surgery ...

Linda Evangelista

#4. 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

#5. Tattooing, when understood in its entirety, must be seen as a religious act. The human being brings forth images from the center of the self and communicates them to the world. Fantasy is embodied in reality and the person is made whole.

Spider Webb

#6. This is the Detroit I want to write about," he says, feeling urbane as fuck. "Tattoo seances and nutty street art and text-message millionaires. People don't even know this is happening."
"Of course we know it's happening, shithead," Anorexic Thor says. "You don't know it's happening.

Lauren Beukes

#7. Tattooing is historical, cultural and a great form of art but it should always be safe for both the client and the tattoo practitioner.

William Webb

#8. In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.

Jodi Picoult

#9. The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.

Dan Brown

#10. Express yourself through your art - whether it's your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

Kat Von D.

#11. Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.

William Webb