"kids write graffiti because it's fun. It is also an expression of the longing to be somebody in a world that is always reminding you that you're not." Chalfant and Prighoff, 1987, quoted in 'Where words fail : a meeting place', (Sue Morter) in Killick, K. and Schaverien, J. (Eds) 'Art, Psychotherapy and Psychosis', Routledge, 1997, p.227.