Quotes That Perfectly Sum Up Tattoos

Some say tattoos are like stores and symbolic of the important life moments. Some opine that tattoos stand for self-discovery. Some associate tattoo with prison culture. Well, these are thoughts of celebrities, authors and iconic people over tattoos.

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Here we have compiled such interesting thoughts about tattooing.

“Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.”

• Pamela Anderson
   

“Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.”

• CHESTER BENNINGTON

“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

“You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?”

• Kate Upton
   

“I have a lot of tattoos. My first tattoo I had when I was a teenager was just a little heart. I am very friendly with a great artist, Scott Campbell, and I started going to him to get tattoos. I'm very spontaneous about what I get.”

• Marc Jacobs
   

“I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not sure yet. The one I have is my Hebrew name, which I share with my grandfather, and it's not the best tattoo.”

• Adam Pally
   

“Tattoos are synonymous with prison culture. However, their origin in the prison system is far from the status symbol they are today. For centuries, tattoos were used as a means of identification, and to mark the accused so that everyone who saw their ink would know they were and, many times, the nature of their crimes.”

• JOHN SWED

“And this tattooing, had been 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; but whose mysteries not even himself could read, though his own live heart beat against them; and these mysteries were therefore destined in the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last.”

• HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby Dick

“I noticed that I got a better space in the line in Starbucks when I had my tattoo. People associate tattoos with a certain edge. Then I open my mouth, and something completely different comes out.”

• Wentworth Miller

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

ANONYMOUS

“Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment the same as marriage.”

• Chester Bennington

So these are some interesting quotes that define tattoos.