Top 34 Tattooing's Quotes
#1. 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
#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
#4. What was Latin and the chance of tattooing compared to this?
L.M. Montgomery
#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. Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.
Judith Kelman
#7. 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
#8. Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
Harry Allen Overstreet
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#13. It's the Josh Bennett equivalent of tattooing her name across my chest.
Katja Millay
#14. 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
#15. Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
Sylvia Plath
#16. There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go sit under that tree by your street.
Annie Dillard
#17. In the kitchen, chickens had overflowed into the sink. They weren't making much noise, except for the occasional 'werk' a chicken makes when it's a bit uncertain about things, which is more or less all the time.
Terry Pratchett
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. He had seen her painted sign by the road: Skin Illustration! Illustration instead of tattoo! Artistic!
Ray Bradbury
#21. 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
#22. The way he kissed me felt like a brand. Like he was tattooing himself under my skin.
Tammara Webber
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Early tattooing was thought to have mystical protection, to be a talisman of sorts worn on the skin.
Kym Grosso
#27. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.
James Cook
#32. He was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#33. I had a sudden understanding of tattooing's true appeal: It's
Troll-collecting for biker types.
Peter Trachtenberg
#34. What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
Kate Moss