Karen Kain Quotes

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.

Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.

All really worthwhile artists, creators, use the technology of their time, and anybody who doesn't becomes immediately a fossil.

I was given a chance some time ago, and it changed my life forever. I want to be able to give the same chance to the next generation of artists. There's a new wave coming, and we are going to be a part of it.

For me, Shonda Rhimes is an amazing person that I look up to. She empowered a lot of her writers to go on and do other things while, at the same time, she made sure she kept her stamp on those things and grew her business.

I'm honored to be asked by Stephanie Allain - whom I've long admired - to add to the scope of my programming purview at Film Independent. I salute David Ansen for his work with the festival and look forward to continuing to follow his example.

Kanye is the leading eagle: he's like the president who stands up for kids like us who have ideas.

Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

All the way through the youth ranks at Sao Paulo, I've always been the captain.

I'm not motivated by money or fame. I'm more driven by the electricity of creativity. The idea of being one of the legends that inspired me, being like Tupac.

What if Picasso had gone to the Moon? Or Andy Warhol or Michael Jackson or John Lennon? What about Coco Chanel? These are all artists that I adore.

If you are a successful woman, that can inspire the next generation.

All great directors - however, they do it - make you want to be good. I hope I do it. It's like being a parent, a psychiatrist, a disciplinarian and a friend.

Our country needs a new generation of leadership, and I believe that Marco Rubio presents this nation with the greatest possibilities and opportunities to meet the challenges of the next generation.

And if you think this young boy, from Dallas, Texas, is adding to the canon of theater arts, of performing arts, of cinema, well I'm humbled and I'm very excited.

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

The most important thing to me is to inspire all these athletes in the next generation.

All my career I've been like a leader, and a lot of people followed what I did.

Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team.

I think each artist lives with purpose. A strong sense of purpose. We know who's come before us.

It's like, hey, I've done what I could do, I've accomplished a lot, and now this - especially with wrestling - if this next generation wants to pass me up, great job. Good for them.

I operate best on big vision and creative detail.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.