Quotes on Tattoo

So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future.

I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is chic. Good taste paralyzes. But punk or street fashion or a tattoo-covered body, that is interesting to me, and that I love. I didn't go to fashion school. I learned from watching couture shows on TV and reading magazines. That made me dream.

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

So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Mattia was right: the days had slipped over her skin like a solvent, one after the other, each removing a very thin layer of pigment from her tattoo, and from both of their memories. The outlines, like the circumstances, were still there, black and well delineated, but the colors had merged together until they faded into a dull, uniform tonality, a neutral absence of meaning.

The best things in life aren't things.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

I will either find a way or make one.

You put a tattoo on yourself with the knowledge that this body is yours to have and enjoy while you're here. You have fun with it, and nobody else can control (supposedly) what you do with it. That's why tattooing is such a big thing in prison: it's an expression of freedom—one of the only expressions of freedom there. They can lock you down, control everything, but 'I've got my mind, and I can tattoo my body—alter it my way as an act of personal will.'

Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.