Muse Quotes

269 quotes by 206 authors

I am a big advocate for having an open discussion about team norms and preferences. At The Muse, some of us like to start working… — Kathryn Minshew
I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views. — Lou Reed
Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has… — Will Self
Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want… — Dar Williams
Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give the Muse a… — Tony D'Souza
The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin. — Ernie Isley
A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission. — Robert Breault
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for… — Robert Breault
It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, /… — William Butler Yeats
The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens. — Horace
The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might? — William Shakespeare
The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace,… — Mark Twain
The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life. — Alexander Pope
Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance. — Edgar Degas
My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals... — Katherine Dunn
The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle of the night,… — Mickey Hart
The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown. — Steven Pressfield
Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons. — Wes Nisker
Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face,… — Callimachus

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