Charley Toorop

"It is always the same: a struggle between making love and working. Together, that is almost impossible - at least for me; struggle between being a woman and creating art."

"Made desperate attempts - worked for 3 weeks on a self-portrait intended for you, have scratched off everything yesterday! Maybe I can go on with it again in the studio ."

"I managed to work two mornings on Eddy's portrait in the large painting 'Three Generations' and I could go on working each morning for 1 1/2 hour., so there is some progress .. ..they come now every m…"

"Vincent van Gogh was already there for me even before I started painting myself, actually during the time I became aware. It was the first dispute with my father who saw it so differently, for me he w…"

"Maybe you don't know enough about the facts - I mean my life history. Probably you can discover everything in my works well enough, but.. .. perhaps it would be good if I visit you some evening, or yo…"

"I don't believe you can really give yourself to a man, you can sympathize with him, if you have your own strong creative life, which brings your own philosophy of life."

"The new artist-society will consist of painters, sculptors and architects. The founders don’t intend that the character of the union will be determined by one single art movement. They believe that th…"

"..you could call absolute counterparts. Outwardly they are of course both abstract, of course, but I hate such a view on their art. I find it superficial to consider them like that from the very start…"