Quotes About Tattoos

We live in a crazily youth-orientated world nowadays. It's a trickle-down thing. We see pictures of lithe, attractive celebrity couples such as Brad and Angelina or the Beckhams cavorting around, covered in tattoos, stomachs as flat as the singing in early 'X Factor' rounds.

In high school, I used to draw on my arms with a Sharpie. I knew I was gonna have a lot of tattoos. I'm not exactly classified as an artist, so my drawings could only go so far as I could take 'em. Now my tats are all a story: There's not one I can remember where I got a tat just to get a tat. It's all a part of me. I don't think I'm finished yet.

I really like neck tattoos and hand tattoos. They're just not for me.

Besties Adwoa Aboah and Cara Delevingne have lot in common. They are both beautiful It Brits with impressive modeling chops - and matching half-heart tattoos that symbolize their unbreakable bond.

I almost moved into a place over a funeral parlor. My father said, 'That's just too macabre,' but I thought I'd be embracing my mortality. I told him it would keep me grounded - like when people get skull tattoos.

People have such an immediate judgment of me because I have tattoos or because my hair is sometimes crazy.

'Outsiders,' I guess, is sort of dark, but I don't really think of it as dark. The world up there on that mountain, it had the potential to have a lot of fun as well as a lot of drama, these guys raiding the town in their ATVs with their tattoos. It seemed like something different.

I look at my body as an extension of the music. My body is a canvas, and with my tattoos, I want them to be a direct reflection of my thoughts.

I have lots of tattoos and am biracial.

I was very young when I got my tattoos. I was 16 when I got my full sleeve - I rushed into it.

Most of my tattoos have a story. When people ask me, I tell them whatever they want hear. 'What's this tattoo? What does this mean? Does it hurt?' I tell them everything they want to know.

The tattoos, they were just something to do.

I get a lot of tattoos for people in my family. Some of my friends I have tattoos for, some of my religious beliefs, things that represent me in different times of my life. They kind of tell a story. I like them.

I don't gotta act hard... People be getting face tattoos to act hard.

When you are low, you do tattoos and it gives you adrenaline for a couple of days and you're happy.

Matching tattoos don't ensure the longevity of a friendship, any more than any other mutual hardship.

I get recognized more for my tattoos than my face.

I want my tattoos to be a story of my life.

The thing people see about me is my tattoos more than anything, but the color aspect does not help.

My tattoos... I'd be in the Army right now if I hadn't got 'em.

I enjoy my tattoos, as you can see.

I have always been a big rock fan and remember dressing up as Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose for my high school Halloween disco when I was 17. My teacher painted tattoos on, and I wore a small leather waistcoat and not much else.

I've had tattoos since I was like 16, but if you would have asked the younger me to get a tattoo that symbolized my sexuality, I would have told you no, because that's how not okay I used to be with it.

Tattoos aren't fun unless you're an idiot. It's not fun to get tattoos.