Muse Quotes · Page 7

“I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable.”

— Christopher Moore

I love him (Muse) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much . . . unless you're family.

— Jack White

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

— Frida Kahlo

A muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs.

— Vince Aletti

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

— Kristin Hannah

I'm surrounded by men, and the muse is complaining that I have neglected her.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy.

— Virgil

Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.

— Lord Byron

Writers feel that they can't afford to wait. They must do it now, and they are so clever, and there is so…

— Robert Dessaix

In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.

— Katie Roiphe

Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as…

— Anais Nin

The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was…

— Lloyd Alexander

I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and…

— Janice Dickinson

I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in having good people around me and it turned out to be…

— Ronnie Montrose

“But the fact is, she [the muse] won't be summoned. She alights when it damn well pleases her. She falls in love…

— Erica Jong

I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the…

— Michel de Montaigne

I truly believe that a beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal…

— Prabal Gurung

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our…

— Steven Pressfield

He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make…

— Plato

So, in addition to being a full-time father of two and everything else in life, it isn't so much that I'm sitting…

— DJ Shadow

I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would…

— Serj Tankian

I am super passionate about my new business because it has the potential to disrupt the fashion industry in a positive way.…

— Amber Valletta

I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to…

— Denise Duhamel

Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it…

— John Milton

“Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Anything that touches my heart holds the potential to inspire me.”

— Suman Pokhrel

I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.

— Carine Roitfeld

I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.

— Eric Clapton

First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.

— Gore Vidal

Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Hi, I am Matt Bellamy and I am in a band called Muse and we play Music”

— Matt Bellamy

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

— Stephen King

“She loved me deeply, madly and passionately. She knew no other way!”

— Avijeet Das

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

— Ovid

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

— Barbara Tuchman

Every day I'm worried about you...but my love for you will forever be a muse

— Natalya Johnson

I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don’t think that sex is my Muse.

— Peter Murphy

“Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

— Piers Anthony