Top 21 Quotes About An Artist's Muse
#1. Haven't you ever heard of an artist's muse?" the barman asked. "They all seem to either have one or want one. Me, all I want is peace and quiet.
Louise Penny
#2. 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
#4. I don't need a Hollywood girl. They're crazy. If you're with an actress, you don't know who you're going to come home to every day. But I wouldn't mind a relationship with the right girl. Every artist needs a muse.
JC Chasez
#5. But the fact is, she [the muse] won't be summoned. She alights when it damn well pleases her. She falls in love with one artist, then deserts him for another. She's a real bitch!
Erica Jong
#6. A muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs.
Vince Aletti
#7. I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.
Patti Smith
#8. He carried the Bible; the soldier carried the gun; the administrator and the settler carried the coin. Christianity, Commerce, Civilization: the Bible, the Coin, the Gun: Holy Trinity.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#9. She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it?" she asked.
He smiled and said, 'By loving you.
Kamand Kojouri
#10. You have debased my child ... You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence ... a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.
Lee De Forest
#11. 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.
Anais Nin
#12. A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission.
Robert Breault
#13. The artist-muse relationship is romantic and passionate, and complex, and I would imagine that would be a hard relationship to have if you're not with the person. It requires so much of each other, you have to be in love with each other.
Kate Bosworth
#14. You don't take pictures, the good ones happen to you.
Ernst Haas
#15. Ocular infidelity is unfortunately rampant in this so called artist's world.
Muse
#16. I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable.
Christopher Moore
#17. I never knew anyone who was cloned, but I played one in 'Multiplicity.'
Michael Keaton
#18. You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.
Robert Breault
#20. No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.
Eric Maisel
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