Top 110 Muses Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.
There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.
Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.
I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.
Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
The muses visit when I'm lonely.
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.
Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.
She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.
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.
Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.
An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.
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.
Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it.
With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.
If you look at the greatest models, it was because they were muses to photographers. They collaborated with the artist and they created the kind of images that become iconic.
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
I think my biggest muses in fashion are probably rock 'n' roll girlfriends, like Anita Pallenberg and Marianne Faithfull and Bianca Jagger - and then maybe Patti Smith a bit as well.
It's amazing to be an incubator. Many of my muses have gone on to other brands.
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks
Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face, She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.
We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.
The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.
The notion of having your muse was not something that was built for women originally. That's not to say women don't have muses. I get muses in terms of actors or writers who inspire me, so I understand the concept.
Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).
A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.
A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone,
And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known,
So I turn the leaves of Fancy, till in shadowy design
I find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine.
Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine:
A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.
Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.
Landmarks to the muses that inspired the music. When I could tell it was sincere without trying to prove it
We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.
Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
I am impressed by the way Annie Kevans captured the different types of beauties that have been my inspiration and my muses from my grandmother to artists like David Bowie and Boy George.
(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.
All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.
All actors are muses for their directors.
The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.
There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.
True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.
My mother and grandmother... they were my first muses. The way they dressed and carried themselves was an education in elegance. They defined the word.
I sort of had that fantasy of being one of the muses of Paris and hanging out with Toulouse Lautrec and Picasso.
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.
I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.
The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.
Yet the companions of the Muses
will keep their collective nose in my books
And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.
Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
