Muse Quotes

269 quotes by 206 authors

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse. — Mickey Hart
You're best when you're not in charge. The ego locks the muse. — Robin Williams
The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone… — Plato
New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse, and I can only dream that one day she will recapture her glory. I will do… — Harry Connick, Jr.
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better. — Frida Kahlo
Inspiration is a message-in-a-bo ttle from the distant shore, a window into the other world, a tap of the muse's finger, the grace of the… — Phil Cousineau
I don't have a muse. I have a mortgage. — Jim Butcher
New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse... — Harry Connick, Jr.
Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse. — Carine Roitfeld
We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. — Charles Spurgeon
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks — Miriam
Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction -… — Henry David Thoreau
Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now. — Chris Van Allsburg
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the… — Kit Williams
Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I… — Winston Churchill
I honor health as the first Muse. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show up, and after… — Isabel Allende
It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous… — Kit Williams
Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a… — Thornton Willis
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase. — Horace

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