Quotes and Sayings About Muse
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
-- Alexander Pope -
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.
-- Carine Roitfeld -
If a muse knocked at our studio door tomorrow, how many of us would even notice?
-- Carole Katchen -
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.
-- Catherine Stock -
We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.
-- Chris Van Allsburg -
Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.
-- Dick Schaap -
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
-- Edmund Waller -
The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.
-- Elizabeth Montagu -
No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.
-- Eric Maisel -
Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.
-- Ezra Pound -
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
-- Frida Kahlo -
Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
-- Homer -
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.
-- Ian Hamilton Finlay -
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.
-- Isabel Allende -
I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.
-- Jackie DeShannon -
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
-- James Broughton -
I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.
-- Janice Dickinson -
I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.
-- K. D. Lang -
We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like publishers were being forced to go to more and more extreme lengths to monetize through advertising.
-- Kathryn Minshew -
In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.
-- Katie Roiphe -
I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.
-- Kristin Hersh -
I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.
-- Leonora Carrington -
The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes.
-- Lloyd Alexander -
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.
-- Loulou de la Falaise