Doe Quote by Gueorgui Pinkhassov

The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away…

— Gueorgui Pinkhassov

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power…

— Steven Pressfield

What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the…

— Margaret Fuller

I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.

— Lou Reed

“The muses are wicked and wonderful, devious and delightful, not to be trusted and not to be ignored. Thank God we have them.”

— Mark W. Travis

In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held…

— James Taylor

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

— Stana Katic

I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.

— Jane Birkin

I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the…

— Michel Leiris

“To be a muse is to be a wonder in someone else's eyes, flaws and all.”

— L.H. Cosway

I want the power that comes from expressing myself creatively and putting something back into the world. Being someone's muse would be flattering, but…

— Ari Graynor

Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.

— Robert Genn