Frank Iero's Tattoos: A Catalog - Quotes about Tattoos
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For all of the livejournal cuts, I have used phrases from quotations about tattoos (found by google). These are the full quotations for those interested in no particular order.
As soon as it [the pain of her tongue being tattooed] appeared to have subsided a little, I remarked that I was sorry to see her following so useless a custom; and asked if it was not exceedingly painful? She answered, He eha nui no, he nui roa ra kuu aroha! Pain, great indeed; but greater my affection!
- Reverend William Ellis (1827) relating his observance of a traditional tongue tattoo of mourning in Hawai'i
For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference.
- Margo DeMello (2000) Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community
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, Modern Primitives
My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.
- Johnny Depp
Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos - they're rebellious.
- Jennifer Aniston
The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.
- Captain James Cook
Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
- Jack London
My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look at my skin as something of a living diary because all my tattoos represent a time in my life. And I never wish to shut the door on the past, so I carry it all with me.
- Dave Navarro
Everybody gets the tattoo they deserve.
- David Duchovny, as Fox Mulder on the X-Files
[His tattoos are] the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume.
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick
You put a tattoo on yourself with the knowledge that this body is yours to have and enjoy while you're here. You have fun with it, and nobody else can control (supposedly) what you do with it. That's why tattooing is such a big thing in prison: it's an expression of freedom-one of the only expressions of freedom there. They can lock you down, control everything, but 'I've got my mind, and I can tattoo my body-alter it my way as an act of personal will.'
- Don Ed Hardy
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 Te Waimana-Kākū, Tuhoe (1921)
A person should realize that the tattoo is not just being placed on your body; it is becoming a part of you, an extension of yourself.
- Daemon Rowanchilde
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For all of the livejournal cuts, I have used phrases from quotations about tattoos (found by google). These are the full quotations for those interested in no particular order.
As soon as it [the pain of her tongue being tattooed] appeared to have subsided a little, I remarked that I was sorry to see her following so useless a custom; and asked if it was not exceedingly painful? She answered, He eha nui no, he nui roa ra kuu aroha! Pain, great indeed; but greater my affection!
- Reverend William Ellis (1827) relating his observance of a traditional tongue tattoo of mourning in Hawai'i
For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference.
- Margo DeMello (2000) Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community
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, Modern Primitives
My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.
- Johnny Depp
Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos - they're rebellious.
- Jennifer Aniston
The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.
- Captain James Cook
Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
- Jack London
My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look at my skin as something of a living diary because all my tattoos represent a time in my life. And I never wish to shut the door on the past, so I carry it all with me.
- Dave Navarro
Everybody gets the tattoo they deserve.
- David Duchovny, as Fox Mulder on the X-Files
[His tattoos are] the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume.
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick
You put a tattoo on yourself with the knowledge that this body is yours to have and enjoy while you're here. You have fun with it, and nobody else can control (supposedly) what you do with it. That's why tattooing is such a big thing in prison: it's an expression of freedom-one of the only expressions of freedom there. They can lock you down, control everything, but 'I've got my mind, and I can tattoo my body-alter it my way as an act of personal will.'
- Don Ed Hardy
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 Te Waimana-Kākū, Tuhoe (1921)
A person should realize that the tattoo is not just being placed on your body; it is becoming a part of you, an extension of yourself.
- Daemon Rowanchilde
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