Charley Toorop on Family

"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."