Beauty is something very subjective. There are some very well respected people in Rome that draw things that if you see this, you would say ‘ I can’t believe this’. But they are people that will never be crossed out. So, an ugly piece is not a piece that you reject. An ugly piece made on the hardest spot on earth i s the worthiest piece. So, beauty is something that a passer by can judge, not us - Mirics

Well… the thing is like that. Graffiti is the name. Advertising the name. A kind of advertising that is done without spending money, but only with guts. The more you risk, the more you have visibility and the stronger you are. You are in the game. The tag is the first step. The tag is the name, without the name you are nothing, nobody - Mirics

THESIS ABOUT EUROPEAN GRAFFITI WRITERS WITH RENOK, HERO, PHILO, RAW, EDGE, LUTHER, HIROCK, MIRICS, MARS, TWICE, GEAR, SOME, REVS AND ASO.

Some trains are kind of worth more. When writers meet they talk about different trains and different train yards where they’ve been. When you meet a new writer, you always have some places or trains to identify with and talk around. Local trains are generally more worth painting. For example the old Dutch banana train (the yellow one floor train called ‘doggie’), the Spanish ‘mirror trains’, Berlin’s yellow subway, Southern Sweden’s purple trains or Danish’s old red S-train. People used to go to Copenhagen just to paint that one. [Aso – 26, Stockholm]



Master Thesis :

Behind the tag : A journey with the graffiti writers of European walls (Pdf file)

Author : Silvia Pietrosanti

MSc European Communication Studies

Graduate School of Communication

Amsterdam, June 2010

Source : UvA Scripties Online