There is no Muse - it's all hard work. How Protestant is that?

I'm always astounded at how many "non-creative" people consider "creative" people impractical daydreamers, or the special chosen few who were apparently born with a quill in their pudgy little hands. In reality, creative people are so because they choose to create and not necessarily because the creative act chooses them. If every writer, artist, musician, or dancer were to wait for the moment when the muse struck them or for the "perfect time" to create, there would be a lot less fabulous art in this world.

The truth is there is no "perfect time" to create. There is no ethereal muse floating in the skies striking whomever it fancies with a sparkly wand.

Muse reading a scroll, perhaps Clio - Attic red-figure lekythos, Boeotia c. 435-425 BC -Louvre