Charley Toorop on Life
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Charley Toorop, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
This page displays 6 quotations attributed to Charley Toorop and filed under "life" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Charley Toorop, entry #218616: "Later, when F. was more and more from home, I painted more and more, my own individual life - also saving my nerves ."
Attributed to Charley Toorop, entry #124607: "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."
6 Quotes by Charley Toorop on Life
"Later, when F. was more and more from home, I painted more and more, my own individual life - also saving my nerves ."
"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."
"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 you, or you two, for some days here with me ."
"You wrote about the third dimension in the 'De Groene' - that I was searching for to learn. That's the way it is, but of course it is not 'from the theory of the third dimension'. But it is trying to give life its 'full' shape - to see God in all matter - expressed in any way."
"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."
"..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. Their life and character is also completely different. Van der Leck lives as a peasant and lives a domestic life. Either one is abstract in his soul, or he isn't. Van der Leck is a real realist. Mondrian has always been away from the world, he is a romantic ascetic, a sophisticated monk. Van der Leck is really nice , but he is certainly not sophisticated .."