The Muse Quotes

It's very strange that people would consider me a fashion muse but it's also flattering. I try to just be myself, and wear what's comfortable and makes me feel good.

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

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.

Sometimes I look back and think, "How did I write that? The book is smarter than I am!" I have never written strategically, but rather, followed the dictates of my muse.

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.

My ultimate search has been for a muse.

As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

I'm really lucky because my mom is a good beauty muse.

I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.

When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.

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

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

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

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

It's something I worry about when I'm working out. I don't want to get too fit. Because I don't want the new DaVinci of this Millennium to say, "You. I have found my muse. I have to sculpt you."

I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend.

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.

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

I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.

I've found that depending on the amount of the check, disciplined inspiration can be called upon willingly. I think the name of the lesser known tenth muse was Dollar Dollar Bill Y'all.

It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous inventors, a dog and a rabbit.

Woo the muse of the odd.

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.

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.

When the muse hits me, or the mood, or whatever it is, I get my guitar out and I empty it out. I just start going through things to see what's going to happen.

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

I like to follow my own muse.

The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal

Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies; I no longer read anything but novels.

The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.

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

Muse is a tyrant. It gets you out of bed in the twilight of the morning and forces you to create something!

I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife.

You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done and inspiration is not going to help you.

My mom was my muse - she would buy me Italian 'Vogue.' I was this little fashion boy.

In the TV business, you've got to write fast, and someone will tell you, "Can you rewrite this episode before... 6 p.m.?" So that's when you rewrite it. You can't wait for the muse to show up.

You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder.

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

[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.

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.

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

The artist who chooses the difficult muse; or only has a difficult muse; should not be surprised with the results.

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.