Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.
Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.
I'm surrounded by men, and the muse is complaining that I have neglected her.
Let passion be your muse. Let her guide and teach you to trust your instincts.
I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet.
If a muse knocked at our studio door tomorrow, how many of us would even notice?
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.
A lot of my songs are inspired by a muse of some sort, whether she's real or not.
Generally speaking, I like all music, but Pink Floyd and Muse are my favorite bands.
Unfortunately Seattle is my muse, for the better or worse of Seattle - I'm not sure.
My mom was my muse - she would buy me Italian 'Vogue.' I was this little fashion boy.
Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.
I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.
I have been a muse to Mr. Saint-Laurent, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Versace.
Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.
Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.
[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.
We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.
I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure.
One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.
I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.
What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.
I know I might sound a little bit picky, but someone like a muse who can inspire me is my ideal type.
There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.
Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.
I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.
Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.
My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.
'Simeon's Gift' is really - it's about a musician who - in the Middle Ages, who goes out to find his muse.
Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.
It's why muse is so impatient with me. I don't ever go to her until after the teaching or whatever is over.
Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain.
I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.
Linda's in all the songs. 'Sunshine Superman,' 'Hampstead Incident,' 'Young Girl Blues'... Linda's the muse.
Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.
Models are supposed to be a muse to you. Why is a muse always the same body type, the same look? It's boring.
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.
I found New York too... 'vertical,' closed off, I didn't feel the muse like I did in L.A. Maybe it's the weather?
The artist who chooses the difficult muse; or only has a difficult muse; should not be surprised with the results.
I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.