Art Quote by Oliver $

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

— Tom Rachman

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

— Jane Birkin

Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In…

— Kathleen Tessaro

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

The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability…

— Plato

The concept of muse is alien to me. To speak of a muse implies there is a couple in which one person is the…

— Luca Guadagnino

“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

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

Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those…

— Eric Maisel

One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.

— Eugene Delacroix

The artist is inherently a romantic to some degree, and as such, I believe in a muse. But I don't try to analyze too…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

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