Best 254 quotes in «muse quotes» category

I like to follow my own muse.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide

The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

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

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

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.

There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.

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

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

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.

Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.

Unfortunately Seattle is my muse, for the better or worse of Seattle - I'm not sure.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.

We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.

Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?

With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse.

When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'

A book is a living breathing piece of art and you are just the person it chose to channel its story. Be humble.

You're best when you're not in charge. The ego locks the muse.

A hand moved gracefully over the canvas, releasing the first colorful dot onto a sea of white. Her mind traveled to a different realm, and she joined in spirit with every human being whomever dared to take that first stroke, and she knew the risks; she was willing to pay the price, because wasn’t that what the heart longed for? Whether it be by writing, painting, or music—one only needs to find the strength of courage to walk along the creative path, to search for one’s higher self, and maybe, for just a moment, to gaze into the eyes of God." ― AnneMarie Dapp, Autumn Lady