Focus Quote by Helen Hanson

Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.

— Katherine Neville

“Music arrives when the Muse comes around.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.

— Wes Nisker

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

— Tom Rachman

“The artist, in making victims of his muses, remasters himself as a hero, saving them from their otherwise inconsequential lives.”

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

— Lou Doillon

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

— Karl Lagerfeld

“The ancient Greeks worshipped the human capacity for insight. Scott Berkun, in examining the topic of innovation, pointed out that the Greek religious pantheon…

— Gary Klein

True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.

— Robert Genn

People think of me as a stereotype: muse, privileged, decorative. Classically, the muses were the inspiration. They'd come and go - they wouldn't actually…

— Amanda Harlech

“The Greeks were so committed to ideas as supernatural forces that they created an entire group of goddesses (not one but nine) to represent…

— Scott Berkun

“Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead,…

— Michael Bassey Johnson