American Tattoo Designs

American Tattoo Designs

American Tattoo Designs

FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:

For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference.
~Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000


There is no "underground" community, no dark den of drunken sailors initiating themselves into manhood via cheap, ill-conceived exercises in bodily perforation; it's just a group of people who delight in using their bodies as billboards.
~Joanne McCubrey, "Walking Art: Tattoos," Mountain Democrat Weekend magazine, 9 February 1990

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
~Jack London


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

Anne Heche Tattoos - Celebrity Tattoo Images

Anne Heche Tattoos - Celebrity Tattoo

Anne Heche Butterfly Tattoo

Anne Heche is an American actress, featured in the movie 'Six Days Seven Nights' and 'Psycho'. Anne Heche has a beautiful butterfly tattoo on her lower back.

 FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:

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 Waimana


Ink to paper is thoughtful
Ink to flesh, hard-core.
If Shakespeare were a tattooist
We'd appreciate body art more.
~Carrie Latet

 You think it, I ink it.
~Saying of tattooists


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

Davey Havok Tattoos - Celebrity Tattoo Images

Davey Havok Tattoos - Celebrity Tattoo

Davey Havok Tattoos - Arm Sleeves Tattoo

Davey Havok Tattoos - Wings Tattoo

Davey Havok Tattoos - Celebrity Tattoo Images

Davey Havok Tattoos

Davey Havok Tattoos

Davey Havok Tattoos

Davey Havok is an American rock singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band 'AFI'. The Singer has two complete arm sleeves tattoo, six nautical stars and a flaming heart on his chest, huge angel wings covering his entire back, his left arm has a black cat, ghosts, praying hands of Jesus, pumpkins and bats. The tattoos on his right arm include, a dark haunted looking city, Jack from the night before Christmas, brick wall, pumpkins, witch, along with several other tattoos.

 FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:

Inking without a plan gives Booth freedom to explore the desires of those seated in his chair, he says, to feed off their energy, allowing his clients' demons to help guide the needle.
~Joshua Lipton, about tattoo artist Paul Booth, "Bad Skin," Rolling Stone, 28 March 2002.


Beauty is skin deep. A tattoo goes all the way to the bone.
~Author Unknown

 Tattooing is about personalizing the body, making it a true home and fit temple for the spirit that dwells inside it.... Tattooing therefore, is a way of keeping the spiritual and material needs of my body in balance.
~Michelle Delio


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