Best 254 quotes in «muse quotes» category

Bugs Bunny is my muse.

Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.

But the muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.

Change shakes us up, and we can thank our Muse for it... we are driven by change to create, to excel, and to become better humans, perhaps even more sensitive humans!

Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.

Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.

Fashion is a MUSE, you must seduce her.

Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.

Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.

I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but has Mediterranean ancestry.

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

I guess my husband is a muse as well.

If a muse knocked at our studio door tomorrow, how many of us would even notice?

I get really antsy if I stay in one place too long. Universal was really supportive and understood that I needed to go across the Atlantic to reinvent myself and to find my voice, my muse.

I like to follow my own muse.

I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

I'm surrounded by men, and the muse is complaining that I have neglected her.

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks

I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.

I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

Landmarks to the muses that inspired the music. When I could tell it was sincere without trying to prove it

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.

Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.

My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.

Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America.

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...

She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.

Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.

Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.

So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide

The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.

The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes.

There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.