Karen Kain Quotes

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.

As an artist, you want to do roles that challenge you and say something.

I would love to do Broadway the rest of my life! Because it's challenging, because it makes me grow as an actor, as an entertainer, as an artist, and that's what I need; that's what I'm hooked on.

Ballet needs figures that people can recognize and relate to. People don't know ballet dancers as well as they know other artists.

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

One thing that feels very important to me as an artist is to continually challenge myself and push myself to do all kinds of different things.

If people respect us as artists, they know we'll give them something different every time; they know we're pushing ourselves.

As an artist you always want to challenge yourself, but as you get older you want to bring the audience with you while expanding creatively.

I love to perform and I love to perform characters, and sometimes when I'm doing television and film, I just feel like I'm making a living. I'm good at it, but I'm not really being artistically challenged.

I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.

I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company 'Synergy' in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

The exciting thing about doing art for someone else's story is how I can translate their world through pictures, and that's always a pretty big challenge.

I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.

Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.