Top 80 Muse Quotes

Being able to hear someone say, ‘I found an incredible job on The Muse,’ or ‘It gave me courage to make a career change,’ that’s the motivating factor.

There are highlights when you become irreplaceable as a model, like when you become a muse to designers. They look at you differently; you’re not a coat hanger for hire.

The artist is inherently a romantic to some degree, and as such, I believe in a muse. But I don’t try to analyze too much where it comes from.

I want the power that comes from expressing myself creatively and putting something back into the world. Being someone’s muse would be flattering, but it could get old fast.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

We’ve always found a muse for a record – something that’s a unifying inspiration for the four of us.

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

Some musicians are a bit humourless about their art: they lose sight of the fact that as well as exercising their muse, they’re there to entertain.

My muse is the digital world.

Every woman I have known has actually deepened my spiritual awareness. Even if I have been a selfish man and treated them badly… There were two women, I won’t name them, who had a powerful religious effect on me. The ancient idea of a muse is there.

The thing with making your art your business is: It’s a business. You can’t sit around waiting for the muse, especially when you run a show, and you’re in production, and an outline is due, a script is due, and a reshoot is due. No. You look at the calendar, and you go, ‘OK. I can write from 4 to 6.’ So you write.

I like to have a great vibe wherever I am creating. I like to have movies playing on mute – just eye candy – maybe a friend in the room, maybe a lovely young lady, someone you can use as a muse, who can give you inspiration by her essence.

For a lot of us, awareness is merely realizing the extent to which we’ve been lied to all our lives. You start educating yourself. You become motivated; you follow your muse where it takes you. And you see the world in a different way. You start making decisions based on what you feel is right.

I think I look for a muse in women. Someone I can just picture in my mind. Someone who respects herself and others. It isn’t so much the things she says, it’s mainly what she does. That’s what make her all the more beautiful.

My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way – they just don’t want to say it.

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.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

I think people probably think I self-start, but I don’t… I’m an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.

Flying Colors is more alternative pop with a prog edge. Think the Beatles meets U2 meets Muse and Foo Fighters. It is the opposite of Adrenaline Mob, which has more classic metal influences like Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Pantera, or Disturbed. They are completely different ends of spectrum.

I’ve learnt that the muse is like an angry girlfriend. If she comes knocking you better be home because if you’re not, she doesn’t leave a note saying pick up after 3 P. M. from the post office. The gift she had is gone forever.

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 used to think that most published writers, the ones I admired, had a muse, or a special connection to the universe, to nature, or to aliens – something inaccessible to me that caused their prose to flow onto the page, already perfect.

As we’ve grown ‘The Daily Muse’ and met contacts who want to collaborate with us, knowing who does what has helped us be clear on who we want our partners to connect with – and makes us look buttoned up, too. SEO firm? Talk to our COO. An editor from the ‘Huffington Post?’ Meet our Editor-in-Chief.

The concept of muse is alien to me. To speak of a muse implies there is a couple in which one person is the objectified passive element – there to help the creative, active, often male part of the duo to create. A muse is very passive. Who wants a muse? I don’t want a muse.

I have a vast ‘bone pile’ of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical.

Muse. Mu-se. It’s a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you. And I don’t think it’s necessarily a man ‘taking’ from a woman. It can go both ways, both can stimulate, excite.

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

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?

It’s quite a pure relationship, designer and muse. I think a beautiful dress on the wrong woman could mean nothing. It has to be the right woman and the right clothes. That’s why you need that personal touch.

I sing to my wife; it helps me. She was my muse. I’ve written so many songs about her, to her, with references to her, and still do. She’s a big part of my life. We were together for 33 years. It actually does me good – she’s with me all that time in that way.

I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.

A lot of my songs are inspired by a muse of some sort, whether she’s real or not.

There is something else at work here that is beyond me – and that is Laura. She has a life of her own. There is a magic in her. The muse is in her. And I’m lucky to have her in my life.

Job seekers light up when they find The Muse – we’re a breath of fresh air in a stale, musty world. Our user experience focuses first and foremost on the individual, on providing them information – from content to company profiles – to make the most pressing professional decisions in their lives.

Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.

The muse of music isn’t just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.

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.

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

The concept with Off-White is that I have no ideal target. It’s more about trying to make something for everyone. And I think that’s what helps make it unique. That there isn’t a specific muse.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

I am a big advocate for having an open discussion about team norms and preferences. At The Muse, some of us like to start working at 7:30 A.M. Others focus best from 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. Create a culture where it’s acceptable not to be working when someone else is working.

A lot of my writer friends – some of whom are brilliant – work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.

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

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while ‘Foster the People’ plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.

The funny thing, I guess, is that my husband ended up being the muse of a book about the worst marriage in the world, because if he hadn’t consistently said, ‘Don’t censor yourself, don’t worry about me’ – if he’d been anxious and worried about it – then it would never have gotten written.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‘Do this, do that,’ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

Everybody knows that I don’t have a muse. I’m not interested in that.

Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.

Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.

I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn’t, but she always knows where I’ll be. She doesn’t need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.