".. What I made here up to now is not very special. Only a painting of my head and Eddy with it - including houses and roofs on the background - has something of what I intend to.. ..but one thing I know now for sure. That I was shocked by the paintings I received here from Holland, for example the old man I painted. It is perhaps the best thing I ever made, but what a distress all together. I want everything gradually becoming more clear. And I want to make happy, radiant things at any cost. I mean inwardly radiant and tight and silent. I really believe this will come.. .Back home again I shall study and start from the bottom again; very simple things - study flowers, hands and people's faces and learn how to paint and draw well."

“..a painted or drawn portrait should look more alike than a photo. A photo only presents the moment itself, but in a well-painted portrait you can recognize somebody in all his expressions. Every day you have to be able to see something else in it.”

“If you really want to give yourself as a woman ànd as a mother - completely - it is not possible to make your own creative work. That is, of course, a struggle. Being a mother is also creating, daily - even when children are grown-up - but I have always been able to connect it with my work; I have the children involved in it.. .... ..Yes indeed, certainly because there is also something of creation in it, and because I love the driving force that generates from the new, young around you. With a child you experience the whole life in a concise way, that is something so beautiful and so pure.”

“Later, when F. was more and more from home, I painted more and more, my own individual life - also saving my nerves .”

“biographical notes of Charley Toorop, in Dutch RKD-Archive, The Hague”

“some pictures of her paintings: on the website of Museum of Modern Realism”

“I know very well that Communism is the only power that will be able to cope with the ever-growing fascism and the increasing power of the Roman Catholics, and that therefore we all have to cooperate, but I can't now; once I am recovered you can count on me.. .I believe in Russia and Russian communism and from here and also through it a new life form and also a religious form of existence. I am a great admirer of Berdyaev.”