Turtle Tattoo Designs

Biomechanical Alien Tattoo Design on Hand

Biomechanical Alien Tattoo Design on Hand

FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:

"White folks are not going to come to see a bunch of guys with tattoos, with cornrows. I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks different, they're stupid."
CHARLES BARKLEY


Love lasts forever, but a tattoo lasts six months longer. (Anon)

There is no perfect beauty that hath not strangeness in the proportion.
~Sir Francis Bacon - London, 1639


Tattoos aren't meant for everybody and they're too goddamn good for some people.
~Lyle Tuttle, tattoo artist, author, and lecturer.

Biomechanical Armsleeves Tattoo Design

Biomechanical Armsleeves Tattoo Design

FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:

The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different.
~Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000


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

For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference.
~DeMello, Margo


Women, don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor.
~Billy Elmer

Biomechanical Engine Chest Piece Tattoo Designs

Biomechanical Engine Chest Piece Tattoo Designs

 FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:

"The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation"
Captain James Cook - 1779


"With the Haidas, however, every mark has its meaning ?" - James Swan, Tattoo Marks of the Haida, 1878.

 "Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves." Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 1871


In Tahiti, not all Europeans responded with the enthusiasm that had been exhibited by the British Admiralty's Captain James Cook, his Science Officer and Botanist, Sir Joseph Banks - who received a traditional Polynesian tattoo - and dozens of the ordinary sailors and seamen aboard Cook's ships. Missionaries who arrived in Tahiti at the end of the 18th century, turned tattooing from a standard practice into an embarrassing and punishable act of Paganism. King Pomare II was converted to Christianity in 1812 and he immediately put force behind a severe, regulated code that had been laid out by the missionaries. The death certificate for traditional tattoos was essentially signed in 1823 with the passage in the code that stated: "No one shall be tattooed and this practice should be completely abolished. This is an old and bad habit. Men or women who get tattooed will be judged and punished... The punishment for men will be work on ten measures of road for the first tattoo and 20 measures for the second tattoo... The punishment for women will be to make two big coats; one for the king and the other for the governor."

Biomechanical Heart and Chest Tattoo Design

Biomechanical Heart and Chest Tattoo Design

 RANDOM TATTOO QUOTES:

Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. ~Jon Anderson, "Epidermal Dalis," Chicago Tribune, 6 October 1994


He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. -Friedrich Nietzsche

 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


Your body is a temple, but how long can you live in the same house before you redecorate? ~Author Unknown

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around. -"Vanilla Sky"

Biomech Face and Neck Tattoo Design

Biomech Face and Neck Tattoo Design

 RANDOM TATTOO QUOTES:

Good tattoos aren't cheap and cheap tattoos aren't good. ----Unknown, Author


The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos. ~Author Unknown

 Your necklace may break, the fau tree may burst, but my tattooing is indestructible. It is an everlasting gem that you will take into your grave. ~Verse from a traditional tattoo artist's song, as quoted on pbs.org, "Skin Stories: The Art and Culture of Polynesian Tattoo," 2003

 Tattoos aren't meant for everybody and they're too goddamn good for some people. ---Lyle Tuttle, tattoo artist, author, and lecturer.

I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger! ---- Angelina Jolie

Great Britain Cyclist Jamie Staff Biomechanical Design Tattoo

Great Britain Cyclist Jamie Staff Biomechanical Design Tattoo

 FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:

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


"I felt bad about myself because certain people were relentlessly attacking me and my reputation. My mom kept saying 'Let it go, Lauren, It doesn?t matter' ? I realized I had to stop worrying about what other people think. The next day I got a tattoo on my lower back that says 'sticks and stones', because they may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Lauren Conrad

 I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.
Amy Winehouse


Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo. Nicole Appleton


Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos - they're rebellious. Jennifer Aniston