Landmarks to the muses that inspired the music. When I could tell it was sincere without trying to prove it — Drake Copy Share Image
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The thing with making your art your business is: It's a business. You can't sit around waiting for the muse, especially when… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
“Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.” — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
What happens when a female writer invokes a female muse? Does something else happen? With Sappho's figures of desire, we have a… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The artist is inherently a romantic to some degree, and as such, I believe in a muse. But I don't try to… — Terence Trent D'Arby Copy Share Image
It's super-essential. Even though I don't have a very big team, for me, the word muse may be démodé or not. I… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
If an artist is reaching for the universe as a source of creative muse, then I'm there. I'm gonna say, "Yeah. Here's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The richest of all lords is Use, And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, Drink the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The artist who chooses the difficult muse; or only has a difficult muse; should not be surprised with the results. — Oliver $ Copy Share Image
I used to think I was a gay man with this idea of a muse in my head, like a woman that… — Hari Nef Copy Share Image
I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me… — John Updike Copy Share Image
When you're a female poet, would you, therefore, invoke a male muse? When nuns get consecrated into their vocations, they become brides… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend... — John Milton Copy Share Image
Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long. — Euripides 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
