They Create Us, the Musae

We artists are often counted as awkward by people who know nothing of how it feels to have another spirit live within you―the muse.

Even some artists don't understand us, the mused ones, as our muses have faces and clearly appear to us, while all they have is the inspiration and not the muse.

But ancient people knew of them. They said muses were goddesses and ruled upon the arts. It is true.

When a muse forms within your mind and splits your spirit in two, you are completely seized by it, controlled by it, and so you are bound to serve it―and create masterpieces.

It is not just we who create muses. They create us too. They form and re-form us into who we are.

―Tamuna Tsertsvadze

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