Ksenia Solo Quotes

I find that with dance - and with the arts in general - because I want to grow in my performance, I have to come face to face with my own personal challenges.

I try to make sure the projects that I choose are something that will teach me something new, either about myself or about my art.

You tend to find the best in yourself as an artist when you're challenged.

I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

I think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

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

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!

The only reason why you should do a film is because it creatively carbonates you and gets you going. If you're doing it for any other reason, you've lost sight of why you're acting in the first place.

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.

I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.

I really just want to continue to challenge myself. And I want to continue to grow as an artist. I never want to stop.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

I just look at the character and the arc of the character, and see if it's going to be challenging. We always want to challenge ourselves. That's the biggest thing that I look at. Is this going to be a challenge? Is this going to be something that I can try my best to create, that no one could see anyone else do?

When you make movies, it's such an important period of time, when you look back at each one of them. You want to be able to say that you did something that was a challenge and that changed you.

As an actor, that's what you want. You want variety. I want to try things that I'm not used to and push my own envelope and see what I'm capable of.

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

I want to make a better record than I made the last time. I want to grow. I want to discover new things about myself creatively.

I would never accept a role that wasn't going to stretch me or challenge me in some way. I'd say Holy Smoke! probably did that more than anything I'd ever done. It took me to places I didn't actually know I could go to, and that's what I want my career to be all about.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.

I will push myself in different ventures that I believe will make me a better artist, dancer and person.

When I am making music, I am growing at the same time, ain't I?

College had a great deal to do with my development as a person. I don't know if I'd be the artist I was if it wasn't for goin' to school like that. School is a good place - it ain't for everybody, but I think it's for most people.

I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.