‘A novelist is a man who does not like his mother or who never received mother love,’ wrote George Simenon of Honoré de Balzac. May in fact one assert that mother-hatred is the point of departure for the creativity urge, by on irrefutable definition “getting another start in life”? The anti-mother side of artists should perhaps be closely analyzed to explain the freeing of the creative side? If art is a recipe for survival, a theory that is often said, may not the mother-as-anti-muse, she who makes one feel inadequate, belittled, small, useless, etc., foster the need in her children to write, paint, sculpt, dance, compose, etc.?
Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic: 530.
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