Muse Quotes - Page 14

• I remember sitting at the end of my mum's bed being fascinated by her ritual of getting dressed. It was a very methodical and considered process. I suppose you could say she was my first real muse.

  Matthew Williamson

  Fashion, Real, Bed

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• I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Age, Ugly

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.317, Courier Corporation

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• Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Giving, Credit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.81, Harvard University Press

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• My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn't do it. And then one night he was sleeping and he had a vision of a snake swallowing its tail. So he told his students about it and they said, 'Not bad, you go to sleep and you wake up with that.' And he said, 'Visions come to prepared spirits.' The way Billy Wilder put it was 'The muse has to know where to find you.'

  David Milch

  Spiritual, Religious, Sleep

  "The Misfit". Interview with Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 2005.

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• She went from opera, park, assembly, play,
  To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day.
  To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,
  To muse, and spill her solitary tea,
  Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon,
  Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Morning, Prayer

  'Epistle to Miss Blount, on her leaving the Town, after the Coronation' (of King George I, 1715) (1717)

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• I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today.

  Iris Apfel

  Confidence, Fashion, Here I Am

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

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Down And, Impatient

  Source: www.oxfordjournals.org

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• I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Resisting

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• I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Ideas, World, Agnostic

  "The Melting - Pot Revisited: Twenty Well - Known Americans of Polish Background". Book by Olgierd Budrewicz, 1977.

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• I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing 'World War Z Part 12', but I have to go where the muse leads, and I've always been a huge 'G.I. Joe' fan. I always wanted to know more about these characters, these little plastic figures I played with as a kid.

  Max Brooks

  War, Smart, Character

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 9, 2010.

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• There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.

  Propertius

  Inspirational, Wide

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• I think my biggest muses in fashion are probably rock 'n' roll girlfriends, like Anita Pallenberg and Marianne Faithfull and Bianca Jagger - and then maybe Patti Smith a bit as well.

  Peter Dundas

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you think about Balenciaga muse and model Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon - I mean, you look at their mother Jane Birkin, and what they have grown up to be . . . They aren't invaded in fashion, and yet they love it.I mean, who is going to schlep these big skirts and trains and all these things? How wonderful it is to see the young in miniskirts!

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Mother, Fashion, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's not like that when you're a songwriter - songwriters aren't like pulp writers or journalists, even. You just follow the muse. It's called muse-ic. Whenever the muse decides to bestow her inspiration on the songwriter, then the song is born.

  Cass McCombs

  Song, Inspiration, Journalist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every single bit of entertainment is escapism. It's because you are saying, "Let's see what this other person's life is like." And also it's beyond escapism, its entertainment and art as such can elevate the species. The entertainer supposedly is the muse. They're the ones who tell you what is wrong with society in a humorous way. They're the ones who do an expose about this or a documentary about that about the injustice of this. So it can be a very powerful medium.

  Bruce Campbell

  Art, Powerful, Humorous

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.

  Stevie Smith

  Wish To Die, Fancy, Virtue

  Stevie Smith (1969). “The best beast: poems”

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• My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Giving, Wife

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• I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but has Mediterranean ancestry.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  England, Ancestry, Born

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• 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

  Want, Painting, Bigs

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• Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.

  Jerry Harrison

  Sound, Band, Records

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• Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face, She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.

  Callimachus

  Sweet, Two, Shining

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• I love him (Muse) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much . . . unless you're family.

  Jack White

  Hurt, I Love Him, Too Much

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• Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you; Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving; Unless you can die when the dream is past — Oh, never call it loving!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Dream, Angel, Past

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1992). “Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

  Walter Benjamin

  Philosophy, Translations

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending Emily Dickinson stand alone above women poets, because poetry's mystical energies are ruled by a hierach requiring the sexual subordination of her petitioners. Women have achieved more as novelists than as poets because the social novel operates outside the ancient marriage of myth and eroticism.

  Camille Paglia

  Giving, Erotic, Energy

  "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinso". Book by Camille Paglia, 1990.

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