Top 41 Quotes About Tattooing
#1. 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
#2. I had a sudden understanding of tattooing's true appeal: It's
Troll-collecting for biker types.
Peter Trachtenberg
#3. The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.
James Cook
#4. 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
#5. There are always a lot of jokes and good vibes floating through the studio so tattooing all day doesn't feel like a job. It's rewarding to see my clients as excited as I am.
William Webb
#6. Video games are like a religion; you want to get people tattooing your little logo on their body so they'll get somebody else interested in it too.
Cliff Bleszinski
#7. Early tattooing was thought to have mystical protection, to be a talisman of sorts worn on the skin.
Kym Grosso
#8. Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.
Henry David Thoreau
#9. The first purpose of clothes ... was not warmth or decency, but ornament ... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.
Thomas Carlyle
#10. It's not always the style of tattooing but the rather the subject matter that drives me. I love tattooing anything from mythology to comic book superheroes.
William Webb
#11. The way he kissed me felt like a brand. Like he was tattooing himself under my skin.
Tammara Webber
#12. Know what one of the guys at the drive-through Starbucks has on his forearm?" Bernadette said. "A paper clip! It used to be so daring to get a tattoo. And now people are tattooing office supplies on their bodies.
Maria Semple
#13. 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
#14. I don't have one specific tattooing specialty. I enjoy doing full-color new school, portraits, neo-traditional, realistic, black and gray, ultra detailed art, etc ... but always custom.
William Webb
#15. The workbench was filled with glassware, books, syringes, tattooing machine parts, plastic bags, tools. Dozens of books on toxins and thousands of downloaded Internet documents,
Jeffery Deaver
#17. What was Latin and the chance of tattooing compared to this?
L.M. Montgomery
#18. 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
#19. There is no other art medium like tattooing in the world. When the customer comes in with a basic idea, it is up to me to design and translate that idea onto skin. I really appreciate when customers have enough trust in what I can do.
William Webb
#20. Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo.
Margaret Cho
#21. Humans give stuff away all the time, practically tattooing their darkest secrets in neon on their skulls for anyone to see. Perverse fuckers. If they shouldn't think about it, they do. If they should think about it, they don't.
Karen Marie Moning
#22. The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry ...
Julia McNair Wright
#23. It's the Josh Bennett equivalent of tattooing her name across my chest.
Katja Millay
#24. And I've been trying everything I can think of since to make up for it - short of tattooing her name on my ass and streaking across Yankee Stadium.
I was saving that for next week.
Emma Chase
#25. When I write I like to just say everything that people think about but never express vocally. I just get deep into it; I'm a bit obsessive about music.
Drake
#26. When you don't crave increase, people become suspicious of you
Sunday Adelaja
#27. Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles De Gaulle
#28. I knew I seemed a fairly unlikely candidate for an adventure into the unknown. And secretly I doubted that I had what it took, whatever it took, to head off alone to a country most people had never heard of. In light of this, my determination to go puzzled me.
Jamie Zeppa
#29. He had seen her painted sign by the road: Skin Illustration! Illustration instead of tattoo! Artistic!
Ray Bradbury
#30. I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.
Allison Tolman
#31. Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
Sylvia Plath
#32. Anyone with great imagination, of course, is intuitive. Knowledge of any nature, unless put into practical use, becomes of little effect.
Edgar Cayce
#33. We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.
Victor Hugo
#34. I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'
Sarah Palin
#35. And that was how the Selection did its first act in my favor: if I had her here, at least I had the chance to try.
Kiera Cass
#37. Old Roman: The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.
Joseph Campbell
#38. A good quote is the nectar of a gallon of wisdom squeezed into an eight ounce glass. Johnny Flora
Johnny Flora
#39. Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
Larry Wall
#40. People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
David Eagleman
#41. Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
Robert Frost
