Art Quote by Jackie DeShannon

For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of…

— Anais Nin

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

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

— Jane Birkin

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

The notion of having your muse was not something that was built for women originally. That's not to say women don't have muses. I…

— Abi Morgan

For me, a muse is someone who looks glamorous but is quite passive, whereas I was very hard-working. I worked from 9am to sometimes…

— Loulou de la Falaise

I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective.

— Joe Nichols

I sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world of music…

— Adrian Tomine

It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted…

— Sherrie Levine

My muse can take the form of a landscape, an era, a style of writing, a piece of music, and, perhaps that which I…

— Quentin S. Crisp

The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms…

— Whitney Chadwick