Art Quote by Horace

Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain.

— Joe Bonamassa

“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

“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

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

— L.H. Cosway

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

— Homer

“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

“The Muse honors the working stiff.”

— Steven Pressfield

“For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech,…

— Dan Simmons

“Plato said: 'He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration in the belief that craftmanship alone suffices, will remain a bungler and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The reader's feedback is the muse for great written works of art.”

— Sarah Scott

“Let the high Muse chant loves Olympian: We are but mortals, and must sing of men.”

— Theocritus

As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were…

— Edward Thomson