Top 474 Muse Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.
If a muse knocked at our studio door tomorrow, how many of us would even notice?
If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
I have been a muse to Mr. Saint-Laurent, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Versace.
A lot of the time you just have to follow your creative muse and do what you think is best for the story.
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.
Some musicians are a bit humourless about their art: they lose sight of the fact that as well as exercising their muse, they're there to entertain.
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.
The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
My wife Ricky is my muse. Her personal style and natural beauty have always been my inspiration.
Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.
The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.
I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend.
My mom was my muse - she would buy me Italian 'Vogue.' I was this little fashion boy.
Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.
The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.
I never know if I'm the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse.
Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.
The richest of all lords is Use,
And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,
Drink the wild air's salubrity.
We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.
Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.
Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.
I know I might sound a little bit picky, but someone like a muse who can inspire me is my ideal type.
The artist is inherently a romantic to some degree, and as such, I believe in a muse. But I don't try to analyze too much where it comes from.
I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
I think I approach all of my writing in the same way. I mean, it's my job, and I'm committed to it. I don't just float around and wait for some muse to call.
Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.
It's why muse is so impatient with me. I don't ever go to her until after the teaching or whatever is over.
But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place
Where the banished poet has gone
And the night that comes with quickened pace
Is ignorant of dawn.
The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Everyone has left me
except my muse,
that good nurse.
She stays in my hand,
a mild white mouse.
As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.
Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.
I found New York too... 'vertical,' closed off, I didn't feel the muse like I did in L.A. Maybe it's the weather?
I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today.
Like Muse and Linkin Park, we are also striving to be the one and only to create a new genre called BABYMETAL. We hope to be as cool as them.
Lots of you know me as a lone, hard-bitten columnist, prone to lurking on deserted rocky promontories while searching for my muse.
Muse is a tyrant. It gets you out of bed in the twilight of the morning and forces you to create something!
Sweet the young muse with love intense,
Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.
My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.
Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness
One of the benefits of having an audience is that it requires a regimen, a need to create on a regular basis. I don't believe in waiting for the muse to visit.
I think Barbie and I are very similar in many respects. That's why she made such a great muse for the summer Moschino collection.
So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
'Simeon's Gift' is really - it's about a musician who - in the Middle Ages, who goes out to find his muse.
Virtue runs before the muse,
and defies her skill;
she is rapt and doth refuse
to wait a painter's will.
Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain.
Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend,
With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
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.
Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I live my part.
