Kim Young-ha Quotes

I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me.

On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist.

Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

'Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.

Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.

I'm a creator at heart.

There's one thing now that I experience every day when I'm making a film. I get up and think to myself, 'Am I going to be able to do it today?' I figure as long as I have that fear, I'll be alright.

I don't know what the creative process is. I don't know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on.

I'm an artist in my heart.

You should have something to say, an idea you want to get out, and if you don't, just get out of the way, 'cause there's so many great musicians and writers that are in the queue.

There are so many things I want to do, so many things I have to say.

Any motivation starts with some type of doubt.

I'll never run out of things to rap about. Sometimes you sit there and think, 'I can't do it, I can't do it.' Then something happens and you start writing.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.

Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go on and do another." Yes, but it's better to go on and do another if you have the urge than to start drinking and become alcoholic or eat a pound of good fudge and get fat.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is; I've heard about it, but I never saw it.

At moments we are all artists.

They said I would never write this book. Well, f**k ’em – ’cos here it is. All I have to do now is remember something... Bollocks. I can’t remember anything.

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

Doubt is the enemy of creativeness.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.