Your Muses

[Cassie Wanda]

As artists, how do you find muses? Do you use one?

I've always wondered this about every artist I come by. I have noticed certain photographers will do their best work with a certain model and I've heard them use the term "Muse." Do they inspire you completely or do you work with them to create something wonderful?

[Shane Michael Karl]

As an illustrator I don't need just one model, I can build what I need from a hundred different women. A little bit like an artistic Dr Frankenstein lol.

As for inspiration, I find feelings inspire me, emotions. Sometimes it just an image you have to get out of your head so you can have some peace.

I find inspiration in a lot of places, sometimes poetry, prose novels, movies, computer games. Other art works inspire me too.

Sometimes I think the muse thing is just a way of flattering the object of their affections, though I have seen both male and female artists do this so it is an equal opportunity ego stroke. Maybe I'm just cynical :P

[Little Queenie]

Hello...im little late to reply this but i'm a recently member...but i'd like to reply this cuz i use to draw etc.
In my point of view when you do any kind of art you always have a muse but it can be anything not just a person or other art. A muse is a thing you find in your life, that you feel a little "addicted" and pocessive...for exemple my muse is me but also the situations that i live or feelings.
Your feisty-ness can help...but i think may be being a muse of somebody is more inspired for you (in your art) than for the artists..ahahah...everybody looking something to love and this is the biggest muse***

Kisses red kisses from little queenie Rebeca***

[SirDarcy]

As a young electronic music composer, I wrote a piece called "Gwendoline Descendue!', inspired by Gwendoline, the bondage comic book heroine, so I guess she was my muse...Strangely enough, years later, this piece has been released on record and people know what it refers to, whereas before...

I like to think about something attractive, fascinating, exemplifying the power of nature when I create, and some women do represent that so yes, I need a muse!

 

[wildweed]

In my time modeling I've served as a muse for a handful of people, male and female. It's about what you convey, how much you or your image "speaks" to the inspired. My muse will always be Mick Jagger, always had been. His walk, his charisma, his attitude towards press, etc. his confidence. How d'ya think Andy know edie had that something special something? It's not a talent, but a persons subconscious at work. Their aura connecting with something you poses, and knowing inspiration can be drawn

[Karin Scissorhands]

I'm inspired by things I see, hear, taste, touch, smell and feel.  Do I use a muse?  Sure!  Does it change?  All the time!  Growing and exploring in all areas is necessary to be artistically well rounded.  Art is endless... 

[Brigitte Lee]

What a great discussion! There is a photographer that I work with a lot and we seem to completely understand each others' vision without needing to say anything. It's really great when two people can create art that both are happy with. He has called me his muse before, and it's really flattering.

Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, and Dita Von Teese are a few of my muses. Whenever I watch their shows or films, I become inspired to create. It's so addicting. :D

[RP3 Photoworks]

Great question. I must say as a Photographer it is great when you find someone who inspirer you to do your best every time you get behind the camera. because all you want to do is your best for them and you. but it can all so suck the life out of you if you get to close.

[SimplyWickedStudio]

My muse is not so much based on a particular person, but rather on a person at a particular moment in time. Its a package deal. Kinda like deja vu'. Then I become obsessed with creating that moment. 

[Velvet Curtain Graphics]

Sometimes I do and sometimes if I feel that there is a connection between me and that person. If there is no connection neither of us could give it our all.

[RL]

   It can be euforic and intimate experience. The orgasum comes in the final product. (I'm not wierd, just deeply Autistic about my art)  The Muses can sometime become blinding. You miss other talent as it aspires pass you. Sometimes you try to fit your Muse to shoots they are not right for. And the most deadly: Physical involvement. Relationship strip away the mistic of the Muse, replacing them with rough and rude realities. The perfect become imperfect. This sends the Artist seaching. This is infidelity. All this shows in their work. Great moments of passion and distruction. Some never recover. Van Gogh. Others search for their next Muse. Life outside the passion play is distructively boring. Addicition.

   Other people are uneffected. R

 

[RL]

Interesting to read the others on this thread I wrote before I read. I value their opinions. R

 

[Damona-Art]

This is easy, my muses can be anything. I can watch a clip or an old movie on TV and think of a whole new shoot.The same can happen when I meet someone, read a magazine or go to a beautiful place where I start creating the scenes in my head. And when there is a nice connection with the model where ideas keep coming from eachother, there can be 'magic' created :-)

"When you open up to anything that passes your life, the whole world is a muse!"