Usually all my tattoos came at good times. A tattoo is something permanent when you've made a self-discovery, or something you've come to a conclusion about.
ANGELINA JOLIE, USA Today interview, July 17, 2003
Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.
CHESTER BENNINGTON, linkinpark.com
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, Prison Tattoos
Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marraige.
CHESTER BENNINGTON, Answers.com
Tattoos fulfill a need to inscribe the self as an individual.
MARGO DEMELLO, Bodies of Inscription
Tattooing is about personalizing the body, making it a true home and fit temple for the spirit that dwells inside it.
MICHELLE DELIO, Tattoo: The Exotic Art of Skin Decoration
Today, people with tattoos, body piercings, and brands are everywhere. They are shown in advertisements, on television shows, and in magazine and newspaper photographs. Even a glamorous toy icon, Barbie, comes with temporary tattoos.
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, Awakening Beauty
A tattoo is an affirmation: that this body is yours to have and to enjoy while you're here. Nobody else can control what you do with it.
DON ED HARDY, Douglas Kent Hall's Prison Tattoos
The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different.
MARGO DEMELLO, Bodies of Inscription
Tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul.
MICHELLE DELIO, Tattoo: The Exotic Art of Skin Decoration
Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
