When you have some interviews with some hip guys or some stupid magazines they often, so often, portray them in front of some garage with some graffiti on it. Because it is in the city you know? ‘Yeah this is blablabla, he is like a creative designer, he does this and that... where are you from? What are you doing?’ But these guys are standing there...and this is a window and it supposed to be the representation of the city and at the same time I am pretty sure that these people will disagree with you if you make a piece next to them: ‘What the fuck are you doing?’ They will call the cops - Raw

In some places graffiti look fucking stupid […] as soon as I am in the country side or somewhere in the South of France I am not even thinking about spray cans you know? It’s just totally ridiculous. And even when you are going to do it, you take a picture, you can publish in on a magazine so the kids in the city will see the magazine and they will see the piece. So it is bringing back to the city again. So, it’s all about the city. And if you are not doing graffiti or you feel offended by it and you are living in the city...I am like ‘c’mon, you want all the stuf f that is going on in the city, you want the heart beats, you want this, you want that...’[…] It’s a city culture, so I feel like when you are living in the city you have to take into account that your kids they are going to get bored with the surrounding, so they want to kick against something and eventually they are going to take a spray can and go out, understand that that culture exists and they are going to write on the walls. Some people have always been writing on walls. Why wouldn’t I do it now ? – Raw

I did a lot of trains before, but now I slowed down, but I am doing a lot on the streets. There is one big reason just that I am mostly in the city. I have friends that live on the other side of the city and they have to travel to Amsterdam […] and they write on trains a lot, just to see their stuff up on the trains; whereas I am just biking around the city all day and I want to see my shit up on the city, you know ? - Raw

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