#tattoo

If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I'll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco. ↗

— Megan Fox

#costco #ever #go #hollywood #i

He scanned my face with careful hope in his eyes. “You love me?” “It’s the tattoos,” I shrugged. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beautiful-disaster #jamie-mcguire #love #sweet #tattoos

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

#control #dan-brown #flesh #tattoo #the-lost-symbol

Someday I want to get a tattoo. That's the first thing I'm going to do after I realize my biggest ambition in life: going to prison. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #tattoos #funny

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

#body #confidence #creation #creative #emotion

I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal internally generated coloring of corrollas, furs, shells, carapaces and wings. For man it has been necessary to create both works and tools outside of himself. But it may be that he retains an obscure nostalgia to create them on his own body, to make them a part of it rather than projecting them outwards onto an independent surface, where he is free to retouch them as he sees fit, which is precisely what painting and art are. ↗

— Roger Caillois

#art

Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful....... ↗

— Nicola Barker

#beauty

wear your heart on your skin in this life ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#tattooing #tattoos #dreams

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo. ↗

— Anne Fadiman

#typo #imagination

She wanted something she didn't have words for- peace, numbness, something. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#tattoo #love