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Art and Ursula Vernon
May. 16th, 2006 03:23 pmI loved this section of a recent essay enough that I had to share it. (It sounds very familiar, too.)
"...I had to do my frog painting. And as some in the audience may be familiar with, I had no choice about doing the painting. I had to do it Right This Minute, Goddamnit. People get far too unnecessarily soppy about having a muse, with the swooning and the homilies and the sense that it makes one better than unarty mortals, but I have generally found a muse to be more or less like an overactive bladder. It’s an inconvenient, insistent, occasionally humiliating condition. When you gotta art, you gotta art NOW. Or there will be accidents and tears and someone may have to change their pants."
--Ursula Vernon: http://www.emg-zine.com/may06/wombats.php
(Note: The web address was changed so that it actually, y'know, worked. Thanks,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tumorous.)
"...I had to do my frog painting. And as some in the audience may be familiar with, I had no choice about doing the painting. I had to do it Right This Minute, Goddamnit. People get far too unnecessarily soppy about having a muse, with the swooning and the homilies and the sense that it makes one better than unarty mortals, but I have generally found a muse to be more or less like an overactive bladder. It’s an inconvenient, insistent, occasionally humiliating condition. When you gotta art, you gotta art NOW. Or there will be accidents and tears and someone may have to change their pants."
--Ursula Vernon: http://www.emg-zine.com/may06/wombats.php
(Note: The web address was changed so that it actually, y'know, worked. Thanks,
tumorous.)
