what do you think of people doing graphitti on public things like street walls..

I am at University, and try as much as I can to spray any wall inside here I can find. 1-Freedom of expression 2-I want everyone to know what I believe in 3-I pay a lot of money, an awful lot to study here so repainting walls is not one of their worries.

I think that there is a line between graffiti being vandalism and art. spraying your girlfriends name on a wall well that is vandalism, no matter how you look at it. Graffiti is a lifestyle, a culture, a mecca all it's own, and in the last 10 years more and more people have come to except graffiti as not only and art form but as a cultural reference. Graffiti at one point in time was seen souly as vandalism, however many minds have changed after seeing how amazing some of the graffiti work can really be. Some have even gone as far as to commission graffiti artists to do murals and art shows, so I guess it all depends on where the graffiti is done. there is a limit I mean everything is someones and we all have a right not to have our things spray painted... Even if some of the illegal graffiti work is amazing it is still illegal.

i think they feel the need to express them selves, they are generally people who want to be heard out , ofcourse there are some who are plain wicked and want to spoil the natural beauty of thing but the innocent ones lol want to be heard out but any ways if there is an approved place fpr graphs its ok other wise its not good.

i really accept causse its a way of expressing their artistic skills, when , they do it on man made things like steet wall and buildings like that , but i really hate it when they do it on rocks. and other things like that , Regards Harry

I view graffiti as an art form. I think it helps to show the 'personality' of the city... but I agree with you that it has no place in nature spots. A beautiful mountain side with the words "BS loves JD Forever" spray painted in big huge letters is an eyesore and ruins the pristine scenery. Just my opinion.

I think it depends where it is. In the skate park it kinda belongs. Also, some graffitti artists are just that, artists. The pictures they do are amazing! the stuff you're talking about though.. yah I could leave it. I can't really complain though because I've graffittied before. as a youngster.

This is a difficult one because graffiti enrages me as I feel it is an eyesore. However, there are caves in France and other countries which have celebrated wall paintings by very ancient men and these are celebrated as true treasures and high art. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1000653.stm http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/ So maybe at some stage in the future these bizarre creations will also be researched and treasured, or maybe if there is intelligent life out there in space it will take one look at the stuff and turn the spaceship round!

I consider them as people who has nothing better to do .And may be it is a phase in their life.But you cannot deny that you come across some beauties too.

I say graffiti on public property is wrong. It is not legal to deface another person's property, even if you think it looks better. Freedom of expression does not trump every other idea. djbtol

Unless someone is specifically invited to paint on someone else's property, it's unwelcome graffiti, and shouldn't be there. I get especially pissed off when people do this on mountainsides or rocks. I don't want to see people's "art" put on a rock face. Nobody has a right to spoil nature like that.

it's just so sad when you see all of that especially when you see it done on a church,i have seen that and i just couldn't believe how low people can get to do something like that.pattie

I wish I can do that too. But I am afraid others will think bad about me. So I will never do that.

i agree with you...here in the place that i leave there´s to much graphitti on public places and in some cargoo trains to. buut the worst is that when thoose guys that make the graphitti make them in street signals...

for me even it is your hobby... you should set limitations.. because everything you do has its own limitations...

I think graffiti should not be done on nature's beauty, however, while I am waiting on a train going by...I love to look at the grafitti. As long as it is not swear words...