Best 254 quotes in «muse quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

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

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

There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.

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

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

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.

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

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.'

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

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

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

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

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.

Akil, humans have these wonderful little things we like to cling onto, called souls. The jury’s still out as to whether demons have them, I sincerely doubt you do." ~ Muse.

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

Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.

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

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

Always a frail mind,to Live,I must act this inevitable play of life:'The LIving Death',the deranging and perplexing scenes are in it! Ah!let me not exit the World's STAGE, in silence, leaving the Nature's serene music, my Muse and the Beauty of MANY Imaginary dreams.

All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.

And tonight the stars again ask me your name? And I just smile, playing the guessing game!

And I feel a victory each time when she wins in life.

And you will suck the life out of me Bury it I won't let you bury it I won't let you smother it I won't let you murder it And our time is running out And our time is running out You can't push it underground You can't stop it screaming out How did it come to this?