Muse — Tyler Thompson, LMFT, LPCC

Muse

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You wake the dead to life.

―Rumi

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Art is why I get up in the morning.

—Ani Difranco

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Each of the arts whose office it is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

―Eliza Farnham

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Go to the country.
The muse is in the woods.

―Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

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The muses love the morning.

―Thomas Fuller

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Muses work all day long, and then at night get together and dance.

―Edgar Degas

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I have a promiscuous muse. My muse wants to own every color, work in many media, and in numerous genre.

―Mary Klotz

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Artists are visited by the Muses, or else tormented by their own passions and demons.

―Wes Nisker

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The one who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist. What that one creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

―Plato

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When we sit down each day and do our work, the Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight.

―Steven Pressfield

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In the dead of night, when all is black and still, my easel jumps around and my brushes seem to be waving at me, and at the latest when I am nearly getting into bed, that's when the muse kisses me.

―Faith Puleston

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Listen to the silent voice of your work.

―Linda Saccoccio

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We all have to learn to live and work with our Muse. At times the goddess demands more spontaneity, sometimes more planning and control.

―Sandy Sandy

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Nature and its colorful glory or cities and the nitty-gritty―freeways or even empty parking lots―all are waiting to inspire the muse.

―Randall Sexton

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O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

―William Shakespeare

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Biting my truant pen,
Beating myself for spite,
Said my Muse to me,
Look in thy heart and write

―Philip Sidney

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The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

―Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Retreat to your inner child and the muse begins.

―Heidi Smith

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Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.

―Stevie Smith

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The muse on my shoulder is very sensitive and does not abide claptrap of any kind. Only when I am totally immersed, absorbed in work, does she allow something magical to happen and I become aware of a faint heartbeat and gentle breath emanating from my brush.

―Catherine Stock

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I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

―John Updike

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The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone.

―Roger Ebert

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The only truth I know is you

—Paul Simon

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Let the beauty we love
be what we do.

—Rumi

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Poem: Curious