Questions about graffiti

1- Why people do graffiti?


There have been made lots of researchs trying to find an explication of why people do graffiti. This is not something of young people. The graffiti doesn't depend of the age.

In my opinion, it's impossible to find any answer to that question. As I said, the graffiti is made of people of all ages, and this shows us that every person is different, every one have different ideas or think different.
There are people that paint because they love painting in illegal places, other paint because they want to be the most known writer, others because they love the adrenaline running in front of the police, and I'm sure that someone don't know why he paints...There are lots of reasons of why the people paint.

But I think there is one thing we have in common, and is the necessity to be different of the rest of the people. I mean, we don't want to be the same as all the people, we don't want to be part of the crowd. We need to be different, and doing graffiti we know that we are going against the law. "There is no major pleasure than doing the things you can't do".

2- Art or vandalism?


This is also another important question. We cannot understand the graffiti with out illegality. Some people will think that because of this, it's vandalism, but I would like to open their minds with this blog.
Of course the graffiti is related with vandalism, if not, it wouldn't be illegal. But we also have art and a good way of communication. As the famous phrase says: "A picture is worth than a thousand words".

It depends also, the person who is painting. There are some that want to bomb the cities to be the most known writer, and there are others that instead of doing this, they want to express something with their art. They want to transmit something to the citizens that are seeing his graffiti.

This are two of the ways how the graffiti moves. For example, we can compare the graffiti with the money. With money we can build flats for people that don't have where to live or we can destroy a country or kill a person. With the graffiti is the same, we can destroy or we can transmit feelings.