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Quotes About Muse

En ese autoengaño, su genio deserta, su musa lo abandona. Se queda sin creatividad, sin esperanzas. Confía en ti mismo.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wish for you a wrestling match with your creative muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories... Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
~ Ray Bradbury
Because the Muse persists.
~ Ray Bradbury
Similarly, in a lifetime, we stuff ourselves with sounds, sights, smells, tastes, and textures of people, animals, landscapes, events, large and small. We stuff ourselves with these impressions and experiences and our reaction to them. Into our subconscious go not only factual data but reactive data, our movement toward or away from the sensed events. These are the stuffs, the foods, on which The Muse grows.
~ Ray Bradbury
WI felt I ought to comment on that, but nothing occurred to me.
~ Walter Moers
When squint-eyed Slander plies the unhallow'd tongue, From poison'd maw when Treason weaves his line, And Muse apostate (infamy to song!) Grovels, low muttering, at Sedition's shrine.
~ James Beattie
The best good man, with the worst natur'd muse.
~ James Boswell
Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise.
~ James Thomson
As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.
~ Devin Townsend
I think I look for a muse in women. Someone I can just picture in my mind. Someone who respects herself and others. It isn't so much the things she says, it's mainly what she does. That's what make her all the more beautiful.
~ JC Chasez
Generally speaking, I like all music, but Pink Floyd and Muse are my favorite bands.
~ Annalise Basso
In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have Bresson's 'Decisive Moment,' Frank's 'The Americans'... many masterpieces. But there is nothing to this caliber in color. Well, I think I'll waltz with my muse and hope that I might be able to produce something on this order in color.
~ Ralph Gibson
Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give all to love;Obey thy heart;Friends, kindred, days,Estate, good fame,Plans, credit and the Muse,Nothing refuse.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
~ Ray Bradbury
Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.
~ Plato
Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy.
~ Virgil
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.
~ Homer
Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
~ Wayne Thiebaud
Muse is a tyrant. It gets you out of bed in the twilight of the morning and forces you to create something!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
...at morning, I'm unruffled - I'll sit with my tea and Muse Cat beside me and listen to the soft chime of the grandfather clock...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
~ Cassandra Wilson