247 Ink Magazine Quotes of
2015
“My artwork has always come from a totally intuitive place within me.
I just follow it wherever it may go”
Chet Zar
“DiCaprio bought my Snoop Dogg piece. He was gonna buy my
Tribe Called Quest piece but QTip blocked that because they’re
friends, long story, and Clinton owns a lot of my prints, like everything”
Justin Bua
“Tattoo artists are the new rock stars so it’s all about who
sponsors who, so it’s very self indulgent at this point, but a lot of the
younger accomplished artists are showing mad
respect, not just to me but to quite a few people and that’s just really
nice to see. There’s nothing worse than an ungrateful child (laughs)”
Paul Booth
A lot of friends are like “You’re friends with that person, they didn’t do
very good on the show,” and I’m like,
“Go look at their shit now and don’t pay attention to the show.” The
thing that people don’t realize about it is you’re watching artists that
might be good in the worst possible
situation and in the most stressful situations, you know. We can’t listen
to music and you’re tattooing in silence
with at least eight people around you and getting so
close to your face that if you were to turn your head you’ll
hit your face on the cameras because they’re so close
it’s awkward...Plus they’re fuckin with you. You’re trying
to be friends with people that you’re supposed to be competing
with. It’s our natural instinct to want to get along
with people that we’re near. It’s not in our instincts to live
with people, break bread with people and then compete
with them. So it’s stressful”
Halo
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