Muses

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Does anyone else of an artistic bent have muses?

I mean specific people.

My experience is: do not make the situation any closer than it has to be and do not include specific details about the person in your work. Include what inspires you about them instead, that way the reader/viewer can include their own person. I've written about a teenage love affair with a girl I loved and reminded an old woman of her husband through this way of keeping the energy in the work rather than all the details.

At the moment I have:
Someone (I thought it would never happen!) who won me around with her brain before she won me around with her looks, her looks growing on me.
Someone who has always inspired me on and off and who I tried a relationship with when I was younger, forming a friendship with now because things didn't work out. She is beautiful.

Bear in mind I keep the friendship separate to the art. I know these women aren't actually in the art, but their energy inspires it.

I'm scared I sound hopelessly old fashioned with all this lol. Sounds like Petrarch and Laura or Shakespeare and WH.

I’ve had muses in my life.

Muses have inspired almost all the great literature throughout history.

One cannot write well in a vacuum.

Paradoxically, the lack of a muse could serve as a muse.

I call my romantic interest a muse. She inspires me to do things I won't otherwise have done. She knows I call her that.

My conscience is my muse.

It has more depth of passion than anything I can imagine in another person.

I think that if someone makes me feel good I'll do better art.
Doesn't matter if it's a lover, a friend, or a co-worker.
I don't completely dismiss the thought of the suffering artist, but if I don't feel good I won't have the energy to make any, at least not anything good. (Not that I'm good at it, but still.)

/Mats