Kim Young-ha Quotes

We are all born artists... Almost everything kids do is art.

I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

Everybody draws when they are little.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.