#muse

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#british #british museum #like #marxism #museum

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#hears #more #museum #nonsense #perhaps

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. ↗

— Amy Tan

#comes #desperation #inspiration #kindness #knows

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