Quotes About Muse

Be someone's muse.

One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.

Poor Aubrey: I hope he will get all right. He brought a strangely new personality to English art, and was a master in his way of fantastic grace, and the charm of the unreal. His muse had moods of terrible laughter. Behind his grotesques there seemed to lurk some curious philosophy…

That's what writers and artists and creators do, boy. Listen to the Void and try to hear dead folks' thoughts. Feel their pain. The pain of living folks too. Finding a muse is just an artist or holy man's way of getting a foot in the Void Which Binds' front door. Aenea knew that. You should have too.

Alone with the Morlocks, thought Silenus. But not even Morlocks for company in the end. Only my muse. There

When you think about it, the cause-effect begins to resemble some mad logic-loop by the data artist Carolus or perhaps a print by Escher: the Shrike had come into existence because of the incantatory powers of my poem but the poem could not have existed without the threat/presence of the Shrike as muse. Perhaps I was a bit mad in those days. In

"If you want to write, keep cats."

To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

Wise leaders court hunger like a muse, and they summon her continuously. Complacency, arrogance, malevolence, apathy, and comfort can easily chase her away.

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

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

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."

What can I say, totLly hooked on Traci Hardings writing. An awesome Australian Author. Get your havs in a copy of her latest - the Storytellers Muse. And amazingly awesome read - highly recommended

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?

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

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

The 'Muse' is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.

Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.

She will be your living end. - Lady Grinning Soul

Under what presidential administration was this room last deep-cleaned, I'm standing here prompted to fucking muse out loud,' my father said.

But now my gracious numbers are decay'd, And my sick muse doth give another place. I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument Deserves the travail of a worthier pen;