Muse Quotes

269 quotes by 206 authors

My muse is an ungrateful harlot whoâ€™s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots. — Richelle Mead
I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side… — Patti Smith
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
Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress. — Gayle Forman
I thought you said that after this many years nothing should embarrass him?" Leigh said with gentle amusement. Lucian grunted. "I guess he's more sensitive… — Lynsay Sands
Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write. — Barbara Kingsolver
This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers donâ€™t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates… — Steven Pressfield
I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then… — Nick Cave
(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and… — James Joyce
For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the… — Anais Nin
...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside and mused more… — Tove Jansson
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I… — Marge Piercy
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. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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 isn't the Ouija… — Stephen King
You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A… — Tom Clancy
Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a muse'… — John Keats
I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today. — Iris Apfel
Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop. — Benjamin Franklin
My muse must come to me on union time. — George Balanchine

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206 authors contributed a total of 269 Muse Quotes, led by these top contributors: