Muse Quotes

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up

The muse doesn't come without being called.

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.

Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

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

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.

To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.

Fashion is a MUSE, you must seduce her.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

Who loves not music and the heavenly muse, That man God hates.

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.

I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.

Change shakes us up, and we can thank our Muse for it... we are driven by change to create, to excel, and to become better humans, perhaps even more sensitive humans!

I don't know if I've ever had a muse per se. I would say that the woman I'm inspired by exists more in my sketchbooks. She exists in my head.

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks

Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing.

The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

I didn't see it as someone who worked as hard as I did. But now that Saint Laurent is part of history, it makes me a part of history, so, yes, finally it's not such a bad thing to have been a muse.

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.

When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'

Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story

It's hard to act in the morning. The muse isn't even awake.

My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.

I attempt to connect with my muse and go on demon rides.

What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.

If a muse knocked at our studio door tomorrow, how many of us would even notice?

Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.

A muse is something that serves a poet well early in his or her career. In later years one writers out of one's own driven inspiration. One learns to find inspiration rather than waiting for it to come for a visit. I can find inspiration almost anywhere.

I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.

There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.

The muse on my shoulder is very sensitive and does not abide claptrap of any kind... Only when I am totally immersed... absorbed in work... does she allow something magical to happen and I become aware of a faint heartbeat and gentle breath emanating from my brush.

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.

[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.

No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.