Young-Ha Kim Quotes

#1. An artist's passion shouldn't create passion. An artist's supreme virtue is to be detached and cold.

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#2. I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.

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#3. And still everything's the same, even though I did my best to get as far away as I could.

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#4. The present is re-created to immortalize memories. It's pathetic, but that's human tendency now.

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#5. There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder.

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#6. Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place?

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#7. A novel, basically, is writing one sentence - then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

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#8. People unconsciously want to reveal their inner urges.

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#9. Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

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#10. A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller.

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#11. Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal.

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#12. The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

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#13. Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

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#14. Art is about going a little nuts and justifying the next sentence.

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#15. People who don't know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don't know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.

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