![[A] genuine tattoo tells a story. I like stories and tattoos, no matter how well done, and if they don’t tell a story that involves you emotionally, then they’re just there for decoration, then they’re not a valid tattoo. There has to be some emotional appeal or they’re not, to my way of thinking, a real tattoo. It tells people what you are and what you believe in, so there’s no mistakes.
- Leo, tattooist, 1993, quoted in Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription, 2000](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0swkjCtZe1qbwvmho1_500.jpg)
[A] genuine tattoo tells a story. I like stories and tattoos, no matter how well done, and if they don’t tell a story that involves you emotionally, then they’re just there for decoration, then they’re not a valid tattoo. There has to be some emotional appeal or they’re not, to my way of thinking, a real tattoo. It tells people what you are and what you believe in, so there’s no mistakes.
- Leo, tattooist, 1993, quoted in Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription, 2000
