Muse Quotes

269 quotes by 206 authors

No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist. — Eric Maisel
Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse. — Robert Genn
True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work. — Robert Genn
We know the human mind is programmed to glaze over when bored. Conversely, the mind is more alert in the presence of novelty. Our muse… — Robert Genn
Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings. — Robert Genn
A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly giving a breakthrough to be… — Robert Bateman
By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into… — Erasmus Darwin
Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming,… — Maria Popova
Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar illogic of Wall… — Peter Lynch
Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or… — Alexander Pope
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 on. — Janice Dickinson
I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks… — Marc Jacobs
You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend,… — Barbara Kingsolver
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My ultimate search has been for a muse. — Dominic Monaghan
Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a… — Jodi Picoult
Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that. — Miuccia Prada
I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and… — Tom Robbins
Muse. Mu-se. It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you. And I don't think it's necessarily a man… — Chloe Sevigny
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. — William Shakespeare

Who Wrote These Muse Quotes

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