Muse Quotes
Kerry Greenwood
If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!
2121 Ray Bradbury
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.
1344 Aaron B. Powell
There’s nothing worse than being violently jerked away from creativity.
2769 Michelle C. Hillstrom
Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.
1071 Michael Bassey Johnson
You can lead and motivate people without a certificate or title, what you need to do is to tell people a compelling secret that was only known to you.
2463 Aniruddha Sastikar
Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.
4678 John Geddes
...why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much― Mark Twain ...that's why ...
1250 Michael Bassey Johnson
Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will fill it up.
1273 Michael Bassey Johnson
The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.
3392 Anaïs Nin
For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue - that I had to do the job myself.
3998 Roman Payne
The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.
4923 Rob Brezsny
All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure.
4525 Helen Hanson
Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.
4137 Plato
The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.
1990 Laurie Seidler
My theory is you shouldn't apologize for believing in an idea-channeling muse. You should just be sure to feed her.
2395 Tim Fargo
When there is silence,
Give your voice.
When there is darkness,
Shine your light.
When there is desperation,
Offer hope.
4514 Ryan Lilly
Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.
1643 L.M. Montgomery
Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere.
4025 Francine Prose
Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.
4029 Lauren Beukes
He always thought a muse should be sex on legs.
2263 Sappho
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
3097 Stephen King
The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.
3775 Harley King
One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art.
1847 Saiber
Outline of your frame
My paper witness your silhouette
Sipping in coffee
My muse, my Juliet.
Afternoon spent,
In hungry desires
Ending with a kiss
On your coffee lips.
4163 Sharon Biggs Waller
Then I knew: this wasn’t just a passion I felt for my model. My feelings about him had nothing to do with how his looks inspired me; he was far more than a muse. With every stroke of pencil and crayon, I had drawn Will into my heart.
I was in love with him.
3619 Ludwig Van Beethoven
The barriers are not erected which can say to [aspiring] talents and industry, “Thus far and no farther.
4880 Matt Bellamy
Hi, I am Matt Bellamy and I am in a band called Muse and we play Music
1564 Michael Bassey Johnson
A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to the path of destruction.
4518 Steven Pressfield
We're never alone. As soon as we step outside the campfire glow, our Muse lights on our shoulder like a butterfly. The act of courage calls for infallibly that deeper part of ourselves that supports and sustains us.
3135 H.M. Ward
I see it, Jack. Your muse is back. The thing that gave you passion, tormented you, and haunted you is back. You're reeling in ecstasy and dread. It's something you want, but can't ever have. And the one that brings the pain is pure, white as snow... and standing in front of you.
2862 Don Roff
If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life-whether it's writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It's yours.
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