Posted, painted, carved or pasted on the walls of Paris, there crop up desire, love, mood, humour, provocation, tenderness, poetry, the commonplace and the unfamiliar, the minute and the monumental which take you by surprise and set you wondering. Be they damaged, torn off, faded or about to be covered up, these impromptu street artworks irresistibly draw the eye to them. Henri Matisse was right then when he stated “I should have made graffiti“.