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Every woman I have known has actually deepened my spiritual awareness. Even if I have been a selfish man and treated them badly... There were two women, I won't name them, who had a powerful religious effect on me. The ancient idea of a muse is there.

The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why our art continues to do that.

I really believe that women run the art world.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

I think I look for a muse in women. Someone I can just picture in my mind. Someone who respects herself and others. It isn't so much the things she says, it's mainly what she does. That's what make her all the more beautiful.