Rip Tattoo Quotes

What is art? Art is tar, rearranged. Art is tar on canvas or tar on tarp or tar on a naked body. Art is a bird chirping changed into something visual. Art is an image of a thousand beaks breaking into the office of a quack doctor. I know that doctor, and I've personally spoken to ten of those beaks. Art is rhythm, two hands clapping at a urinal while a third shakes off pee to the beat. Good art stays with you your whole life, especially if that good art is a tattoo. Good art is my name, written backwards, inked on your upper lip in a furry font. Art imitates life, just as life imitates Orafoura. Art can be anything from a Manet to a Monet to a painting of money to a missile. Art can save the world, or devastate it. (We could drop another big bomb on Japan, though I'm not advocating dumping Basquiat paintings on Hiroshima). Art rhymes with a bodily function, and everybody should let their creativity rip everywhere from the privacy of their bathrooms to small heated boxes with four of their closest friends. Art is thinking outside that box, and desperately trying to escape. ~ Jarod Kintz

I went to Sirius Satellite Radio and did my show, Rapping With Rip. ~ Rip Taylor

My tattoo is that I don't have a tattoo. ~ Michael J. Fox

Being open-minded dramatically reduces one's chances of getting a permanent tattoo. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue. ~ William F. DeVault

A tattoo is art and not a possession as love is beauty and intangible. A tattoo is a promise, not an accessory. ~ Danielle Valenilla

What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place.' And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo. ~ Barack Obama

Some of the pain that clients experience is likely from not knowing what to expect. They approach their appointment with tension and nervousness, and they tend to hold their breath when they first get started. As soon as a client relaxes and breathes normally, the tattoo pain becomes minimal. ~ Shelly Dax

My friends are coming up - they run this tattoo parlour out there and they're gonna ink me up with the tattoo I've been wanting since I was two, right here, upper arm. ~ Charlie Benante

If I decide to get a tattoo, it'll be a map of where I live on my chest in case I ever get amnesia. ~ Stewart Stafford

Score a touchdown, kiss your tattoo. Kaepernicking! ~ Colin Kaepernick

I got to actually tattoo one of the members of The Misfits. The very first tattoo I ever did was this Misfits skull. ~ Kat Von D.

I never had any desire to get a tattoo. If I was ever going to get one, I would get a plain anchor with a rope around it, the most unimaginative possible tattoo, like Popeye had. ~ John Waters

Surfer girls rip and they are hot ~ Alana Blanchard

The other day, I got a henna tattoo that says "Forever." ~ Zach Galifianakis

To whomever swapped my tattoo cream for toothpaste ... well played. ~ R.D. Ronald

She gets on you under your skin like a tattoo she'll always be there! ~ Jason Aldean

In life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces. ~ Dan Ariely

Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. ~ Jon Anderson

I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I'm thinking, okay, here's a gal who's capable of making a decision she'll regret in the future. ~ Richard Jeni

Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry. ~ Calvin Trillin

Create a tattoo or something inspired by tattoos. ~ Noah Scalin

Say my shoe game nuts so I call em cashews Every other city it's another Nicki tattoo ~ Nicki Minaj

I'll be in hell before you start breakfast - let her rip! ~ Tom Ketchum

My favorite tattoo right now is the one on my lower stomach that reads "Almost Famous" because as my career grows I'm still humbled every morning when I look at that tattoo, and I'll always remember how much it sucked to ALMOST be famous. ~ Machine Gun Kelly

Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand. ~ Mat Hoffman

As addictive and satisfying as my first tattoo, Wolf's Remedy left me craving more. ~ Lyle Tuttle

I wouldn't care if they tattoo Festus all over. He's been good to me. ~ Ken Curtis

I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats. ~ Amy Winehouse

A cool tattoo design is any drawing that would also look good saggy. ~ Demetri Martin

I feel like the last tattoo you got is usually your favorite. ~ Nico Tortorella

I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it. ~ Eli Roth

I have a swastika tattoo on my arm, but it's just because I like right-hand turns. ~ Kyle Dunnigan

RIP Sir Alfredo Di Stefano. I will never forget each of the shared moments with such a football legend. ~ Sergio Ramos

Hearts get inked too but we don't get to choose the tattoo. ~ Sherihan Gamal

She's staring at me like she wants to rip off my clothes. Or just rip something. I'm not quite sure which. ~ Sarina Bowen

Miguelito, liberated from having to sing with Cugat, sounds like he just got out of jail and is letting it rip. ~ Ned Sublette

I got my first tattoo when I was 16 years old and I went with my mom to get it done - she has a bunch too so we're tattoo buddies now. ~ Josh Hutcherson

One person's tattoo is nobody else's business ~ Don Ed Hardy

Everybody gets the tattoo they deserve. ~ David Duchovny

There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip. ~ Bob Hope

I've never hit anybody who hasn't clocked me two or three times. ~ Rip Torn

If I could just get a piece of lemon, it'd be great. ~ Rip Torn

I have this huge lion tattoo embossed on my arm. I was a little worried as to how we would cover it up. But my makeup man covered the tattoo with makeup. It took close to two hours. ~ Sanjay Dutt

I wouldn't want a tattoo at all. They're difficult to cover up. ~ Richard C. Armitage

My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler. ~ Jacob Dalton

I probably have the crappiest tattoo - not only in country music - but maybe the world. ~ Blake Shelton

I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood. ~ Rip Torn

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

If you Google 'regret and tattoo,' you will get 11.5 million hits. ~ Kathryn Schulz

One of my favorite facts about Jason [Benjamin] is that he collects shirts from tattoo parlors. He has a bunch of tattoo parlor T-shirts, but no tattoos. And then he wears, like, vans and jeans. My boyfriend said he looks like a modern Bruce Springsteen, which is a pretty high compliment. ~ Lena Dunham

Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound. ~ Daniel Smith

It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours. ~ Lou Reed

I think if you're going to get a tattoo, it should be significant, especially when it's all the way up your arms and your body. ~ Blake Lively

Anything new is always considered the devil's tool. ~ Rip Torn

I've come to realize that Barack Obama is the tattoo president. Like a big tattoo, it seemed cool when you were young. But later on, that decision doesn't look so good, and you wonder: what was I thinking? But the worst part is you're still going to have to explain it to your kids. ~ Tim Pawlenty

She crushed it, telling herself she was going to add Big in front of her Idiot tattoo. ~ Nalini Singh

A good tattoo always has a story that runs deeper than the skin, and Inked tells that story. ~ Tara Dakides

They're lucky I didn't rip their arms off for touching her. (Devyn) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person. ~ Yelawolf

No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach. ~ Lena Dunham

Just saw a woman with a big tattoo of Jesus on her back. I guess it's an ixnay on the oggy style-day. ~ Dana Gould

Sometimes, when you're this adventurous, you rip the crotch out of your pants. ~ Josh Gates

Marriage is supposed to be permanent. It's like a tattoo that yells at you. ~ Dov Davidoff

The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it. ~ Antoni Tapies

You mean you let him talk to you like that and you aren't even getting any Man what a rip-off. ~ Karen Chance

To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles. ~ John Mason Brown

Let the other guys do the crybaby stuff. Go for the laughs. ~ Rip Torn

Marty Richards is an angel on Earth. A producer that does what he says he'll do. He helped me greatly. ~ Rip Taylor

Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star! ~ Rip Taylor

Everybody knows I have the ratchetest booty tattoo of an ex-boyfriend. ~ Adrienne Bailon

Keep smiling, I tell myself. It's all good. That's what my wrist tattoo says and you only ink permanent words on your person if you plan to live by them. ~ J.C. Lillis

My tattoo is a phoenix. I got the first when I was 16. I hid it for years. ~ Ashley Scott

These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also. ~ Gore Vidal

I don't feel that I need a tattoo to represent myself as a Samoan or a Christian. ~ Troy Polamalu

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

Scientology is destructive and a rip-off, ~ Jason Beghe

I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. ~ John Steinbeck

I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Every time I get a tattoo, my parents say they'll disown me. I have to get them airbrushed for Charmed. Witches don't have tattoos, I guess. ~ Alyssa Milano

If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. ~ Rip Torn

I'm a big fan of zombies, and I have a zombie tattoo on my leg. ~ Tyler Posey

Maybe that's what I needed. Another tattoo. Some pain on the outside to ease the pain on the inside. ~ N.R. Walker

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more. ~ Rip Torn

Red Skelton ... I broke into tears when I met him. ~ Rip Taylor

I'm a liar. I'll rip your mind up. I'll burn your soul, I'll turn you in to me. ~ Henry Rollins

Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums. ~ William Webb

My very first tattoo was for my dog, Zora, who died in my arms in New York. Right where her heart stopped beating I got a "Z". ~ Cheyenne Jackson

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children. ~ Mike Tyson

We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically rip the system apart. ~ Newt Gingrich

He yearned not to feel ... He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him ... ~ J.K. Rowling

A lot of guitar players get stuck on a person ... before they find out who they really are ... every guitar player should remember be yourself - just let it rip ... ~ Henry Garza

The greatness of the tattoo artist lies in her ability to gauge the degree to which she can push her art before the art kills the canvas. ~ Jill Ciment

Blind wantons like the gulls who scream
And rip the edge off any ideal or dream. ~ Louis MacNeice

RECURRENT CURRENTS
Like the ocean, life ebbs and flows with the occasional rip
Kamil Ali ~ Kamil Ali

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh. ~ Wanda Sykes

I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo ~ Billy Bragg

Carrot Top ... I gave him advice once and he ran with it. He should thank me. ~ Rip Taylor

Pauline Kael said that Rip Torn could get angrier faster than any other American actor: that he could go from zero to 10 in 1.8 seconds or something like that. ~ John Heard

But you don't need anything. You have everything,' I tell him.
Rip looks at me. 'No I don't.'
'What?'
'No I don't.'
There's a pause and then I ask, 'Oh, shit, Rip, What don't you have?'
'I don't have anything to loose. ~ Bret Easton Ellis