Art Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Inspire Muse
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep.… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“No one can claim to have produced any work without [the Muses'] help: the very fact that it exists proves they smiled on us.… — Natalie Haynes Copy Share Image
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god… — Eliza Farnham Copy Share Image
What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy...should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
“Every time I hear writers talk about ‘the muse,’ I just want to bitch-slap them. It’s a job. Do your job.” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“The Muse is not real. Relying on the Muse is like leaning on a crutch made of playing cards.” — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image