#muse

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it. ↗

— John Hawkes

#art #better #better actor #come #end

I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#because #clubs #felt #friend #going

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#because #book #later #like #living

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement. ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#comics #doing #experiences #grew #liked

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#die #guess #i #into #just

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth. ↗

— Hesiod

#happy #his #love #man #mouth

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#independent #moved #museum #new #new york

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#fall #icy #only #pavement #people

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. ↗

— David Hume

#amuses #fancy #found #history #improves

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#education #expert #horizons #inflame #intellects