Karen Kain Quotes

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die. But, it really is about that shared experience with people. I'm from theater, and that's really what theater feels like.

For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.

Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.

Getting to share a project with Anthony Hopkins is incredible. It's like watching Da Vinci paint or something - you're reminded why you do what you do.

All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and I'll always remember it as the first time in my life that I ever felt like I was one with my dreams.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better.

I like the feeling of making things. It's very very rewarding. And filmmaking is that type of experience, where you're forced to collaborate with so many people. You're involved in the beginning to end, you're involved with so many elements, and when it's done, you're like, 'I made this movie.'

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

I need to find those projects more often: the ones that really, really speak to me. I do better work in those situations and have a better time.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure.

Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

I've had the honor to be in sessions with great artists.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.