Art Quote by Terence Trent D'Arby

I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but…

— Quentin S. Crisp

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

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

I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the…

— Michel Leiris

“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’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep.…

— Roman Payne

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

— Jane Birkin

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

Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.

— Wes Nisker

Everyone always asks me who my muse is, or who's the girl I have in mind, which is such a hard question for me…

— Alexander Wang

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

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