Women with Bird TattooRANDOM TATTOO QUOTE: 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
Beautiful Tribal Butterfly Tattoo on Female Back
Black Tribal Dragon Tattoo on Back
Female Back Body Tribal Tattoo with Butterfly Tattoo
Bird and Heart Tattoo Design on Female Back
Religious Tattoo Design on Female Back
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
FAMOUS TATTOO QUOTES:
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
