Kim Young-ha Quotes

Every man is an artist.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

Every human being is an artist

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

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

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.

All men are creative but few are artists.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. We don't have to rely totally on experience if we can do things in our imagination.... It's the only way in which you can live more lives than your own. You can escape your own time, your own sensibility, your own narrowness of vision.

A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to love Before she knew t'was Art.

Some people become dullards, but as children we are all creative. It's in the programming, the socialization, that we lose our sense of play.

Take a bunch of little kids to the beach and they all make art. Adults are too stupid to call it art, but it is art. They'll use their imaginations, make drama, make up characters, make pictures in the sand, they'll make up songs that no one's ever heard before. All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

I'm an artist; I love everyone.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

An empty canvas is full.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.