Interesting. But to all of us who toil in obscurity, our muses are our partners and children who inspire us to get up on Monday mornings and pay all those bills.

Ah.... romance, poetry, culture, is this the Scotsman? What a change from the "Junkie P.C. attacks cross-dressing dwarf " stories that we're usually fed!

AHA!!! So the wife's to blame for everything!!!!

Nope -- there are countless examples of women who have turned men, or the problems of love, into art.
Carson McCullers, Jean Rhys, Elizabeth Smart, Katherine Mansfield, Francoise Sagan, Anna Akhmatova, Anne Sexton,....this article could have been written in the 50's.

Nae luck Mr Blair.

Surley this Pattie Boyd has a lot to answer for !!!

#3
Hi chum,you are going to finish in the divorce court,you have been having a pop at your wife nearly every day. Remember hell hath no fury.

#5 Well said.

A few thoughts about something beautiful: that does make a refreshing change.

4# Yane - this could have been written in the Fifties... Could have been written in the 1450s - or at any time. And yet it makes a change!

She can make you, she can break you, she can open your eyes and she can blind you...

Beauty isn't the fifth wheel of the cart.

Thanks, Alice, for the little trip beyond the looking glass!

#7. She knows I love her really. I don't even put my arms up to stop her thumping me and giving me a black eye any more! :)

AHA!! Caught her!!! #10 as it turns out .... is my WIFE!

I went for a cup of tea and on my return, caught her on the computer!

Musicismylife indeed!!! My wife ( the kids call her the Luddite) is not as daft as she makes out!!! Apologies to all. Wait till the family see this!!!

My MUSE! MY LOVE! Yeah, right!!!

Aaa Well All you lads out there !!! you know love make,s the world go round !! and for Muses !!!What can i say !!A beautiful Woman no matter what Decad < Can and will Inspire and drive men Crazy for Eternity . And would you,s have it anyway other way !!!!!!!!

It is so! Wonderfully captured, Scotsman. And to poor Richard IV, when did your heart become a raisin? There are plenty of lovely portraits in the pages of the Scotsman. One has but to look.

#9
There is no change in the attitude to women artists.

That bill paying, #1, is a self-inflicted misery that has in recent years been rammed down the throats of we artists to such an extent that art has become deemed scandalous waste of resources ... and how dare we, especially we as women, opt to curb our breeding and plan our families for the priveledge to afford to make art while the dysfunctional shopping mall family piled up in the SUV amongst mountains of plastic mass manufactured trash forces upon us that anti-intellectuality of mass culture which becomes thier be-all. Of what worth is art to society when billions of chinese can be bred for the same dollars spent on our paint brushes and oils??? What "beautiful" (in reality ugly) super-model TODAY has not held up her's or someonelses baby robbed from destitute third world families as demonstraion of her "humanity?" (in reality self-interested PR?) The move of the so-called "beautiful" women today is not to art but to baby booming and the mass distribution of poverty around the globe - is anti-art!

14. Yane, melbourne / 12:57am 20 Feb 2007 #9
There is no change in the attitude to women artists

What are you doing on this post? I never knew you were a poof!

#16 Hiya Mines an 80 bob -- aha! You don't know what I am. Mibee I'm a woman artist!
No name calling now!

A woman artist has three jobs to do at all times.
To carry on with her job, to be always a woman to her husband and to care the children. Please let
"them" live.

IF there are any real female artists today they live like Camille Claudell, used and plagiarized by the male artists and then trashed for some pregnant shallow airhead they deem more suitable for being the home object.

#Morning socialmedic --"If there are any real female artists today..."
Are there any artists at all then?

17. Yane, melbourne

All this time I never knew you were a Sheila.