“To be a muse is to be a wonder in someone else's eyes, flaws and all.” — L.H. Cosway Copy Share Image
Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have. — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
The only real inspiration or muse that I have is just the life that I live. — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. — Homer Copy Share Image
Linda's in all the songs. 'Sunshine Superman,' 'Hampstead Incident,' 'Young Girl Blues'... Linda's the muse. — Donovan Copy Share Image
'Simeon's Gift' is really - it's about a musician who - in the Middle Ages, who goes out to find his muse. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
“Yes, You are my hamartia And my muse I don’t have any ex; I am a lover of one The tragic picture… — Yarro Rai Copy Share Image
The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Art supersedes knowledge written in books. Art is the muse. Art is magic settling upon your he[art] like dust.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African… — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain. — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts. — Franco Zeffirelli Copy Share Image
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Each of us may be a diamond-in-the-rough, needing only a muse and a change in circumstance to go from humble caterpillar to… — Peter Whitmer Copy Share Image
[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The funny thing, I guess, is that my husband ended up being the muse of a book about the worst marriage in… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms,… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Landmarks to the muses that inspired the music. When I could tell it was sincere without trying to prove it — Drake Copy Share Image
The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak. — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
A lot of my songs are inspired by a muse of some sort, whether she's real or not. — Borns Copy Share Image
Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image