#Muse

"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."

"Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll."

"All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure."

"The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake."

"Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart."

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