Quote by Sylvain Reynard

“At first he didn’t recognize her. She was breathtakingly beautiful, her movements sure and graceful. Yet there was something about her face and figure…

— Sylvain Reynard

Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“As at those words did I myself become; And all my love was so absorbed in Him, That in oblivion Beatrice was eclipsed.”

— Dante Alighieri

“ Muse When at night I wait for her to come, Life, it seems, hangs by a single strand. What are glory, youth, freedom,…

— Anna Akhmatova

“His thoughts became as scattered and aimless as the rivulets sluicing down her lush curves. She was a goddess rising from the water. Like…

— Kerrigan Byrne

“But Beatrice Blaine! There was a woman! Early pictures taken on her father's estate at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, or in Rome at the Sacred…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton describes art as “an apothecary for the soul.”

— Arianna Huffington

“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining…

— George Eliot

“The picture had no flourishes, but she liked its lowness of tone and the atmosphere of summer twilight that pervaded it. It spoke of…

— Henry James

“Or she would look at him with a sullen expression, once again he would see before him a face worthy of figuring in Botticelli's…

— Marcel Proust

“Madame smiled indulgently. ‘Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology.…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“I escaped into daydreams as I did my piecework. I longed to enter the fraternity of the artist: the hunger, their manner of dress,…

— Patti Smith