History Main / TheMuse

* TimBurton and Lisa Marie...and HelenaBonhamCarter

* Homer invokes the Muse (probably Calliope) at the start of both ''TheIliad'' and ''Literature/TheOdyssey''.

* Speaking of Pokemon, there actually ''is'' a pokemon that is the equivalent to the artistic muse (more specifically, those related to music and dancing) that has been introduced in the newest generation, PokemonBlackAndWhite. It looks very female, [[PurelyAestheticGender but is genderless for some reason]].

* Homer invokes the Muse (probably Calliope) at the start of both ''TheIliad'' and ''TheOdyssey''.

* {{Virgil}} invokes a muse both at the beginning and middle of TheAeneid.

* Woody Allen has had a few, especially Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow.

* TimBurton and Lisa Marie...and Helena Bonham Carter

* Subversion: Pedro Almodovar has Carmen Maura and PenelopeCruz (putting them together for arguably his best film, ''{{Volver}}''), but there is no romantic involvement whatsoever, seeing as he's gay.

** And don't forget [[TheVelvetUnderground Lou Reed]] with "All Tomorrow's Parties."

* {{Dante}} doesn't invoke the muses until the second part of TheDivineComedy, but at the beginning of ''Paradiso'', the third part, he invokes ''all nine'' '''plus''' Apollo himself.

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[[caption-width:480:The Dream of the Poet, or, the Kiss of the Muse (Paul Cézanne)]]

* [[NickCave]] sought much creativity from Anita Lane during his tenure in The Birthday Party and throughout The Bad Seeds.

* Anita Pallenberg inspired the Rolling Stones songs ''Wild Horses'', ''You Got Silver'' and ''Angie'' is rumored to be about her though others say it was about Angela Bowie

* Bob Dylan had several muses, including Edie Sedgwick who he wrote ''Like A Rolling Stone'' and ''Just Like A Woman'' about, Joan Baez, Suze Rotcho and Sara Lowndes who he wrote two albums about (including the incredibly heartfelt and desperate song "Sara," off of ''Desire'').
** it should be noted that Like a rolling stone has been discussed to no end, and to this day there are many likely candidates to whoever inspired dylan to write it
* Roy Orbisons wife Claudette inspired the songs ''Claudette'' and ''Pretty Woman''

* Patti Boyd was a muse to George Harrison and Eric Clapton

* In ''TheDreamer'' issue #11, Beatrice's voice teacher invokes this as the reason why Beatrice is singing particularly well during their session.

* [[DavidFincher]] to [[BradPitt]], and vice versa.

* [[DavidFincher]] to [[BradPitt], and vice versa.

* Marianne Faithful and Marsha Hunt were also Stones muses

Not to be confused with the British rock band {{Music/Muse}}. Or MuseAbuse, though it often follows.

* In E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Jesuits' Church in G---", an artist catches a glimpse of a beautiful woman, which he believes to be a vision, and is inspired to paint a luminously spiritual picture of the Virgin Mary, his masterpiece. Unfortunately, before the painting is finished, he discovers the woman again, by chance saving her life, and marries her. Her earthly reality destroys his religious exaltation, and he's unable to continue the painting. He drives her away with their newborn child, and at first it seems that he'll now be able to paint again, but the guilt from his cruelty drives him mad.

* Subverted (after a fashion) in ''ThePictureOfDorianGray'': ''Dorian'' himself is the muse for the painter Basil Hallward, which at once turns the concept of a muse on its head (he's a man!) and doesn't (Basil is gay, and Dorian is [[{{Bishonen}} beautiful]] and [[DepravedBisexual ravenously bi]]).
* In Hermann Hesse's {{Demian}}, the main character, Sinclair, finds his muse in a woman passing by. He overcomes his alcohol addiction and miserliness and started to paint, even when he doesn't know her name; he simply dubbed her "Beatrice". In a suitably MindScrew-y fashion, when the painting is finished, it actually resembled...the [[HoYay face of the titular character]], who incidentally has been described as [[{{Bishounen}} the perfect union between masculinity and femininity]].