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, … - Charley Toorop

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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.. ..[Mrs. Harrenstein-Schräder: To be a mother gives you much satisfaction, I think?].. ..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 [life] around you. With a child you experience the whole life in a concise way, that is something so beautiful and so pure.

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About Charley Toorop

Charley Toorop (Katwijk, 24 March, 1891 - Bergen, 5 November, 1955) was a Dutch painter famous for her many characteristic portraits and self-portraits with wide-open eyes. She was the daughter of painter Jan Toorop and mother of the painter Edgar Fernhout.

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Alternative Names: C. Fernhout-Toorop Annie Caroline Pontifex Toorop Charley Fernhout Charley Fernhout-Toorop

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Made desperate attempts - worked for 3 weeks on a self-portrait [in Paris] intended for you, have scratched off everything yesterday! Maybe I can go on with it again in the studio [she was would get on the Rue des Plantes in Paris]. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

Als je werkelijk je als vrouw wilt geven en als moeder - heelemaal - , zou je onmogelijk eigen creatief werk kunnen maken. Dat is natuurlijk een strijd. Moeder zijn is ook crëeren, dagelijks, - ook als kinderen groot zijn -, doch ik heb dit altijd wel kunnen verbinden met m'n werk; ik heb de kinderen erin betrokken.. ..[mevr. Harrenstein-Schräder: Jou geeft het zeker wel een groote voldoening dat je moeder bent?].. .Ja, vooral omdat er ook iets scheppends in is, en omdat ik houd van de drijvende kracht, die van het nieuwe, jonge om je heen uitgaat. Aan een kind beleef je beknopt het heele leven, dat is zoo iets prachtigs en zoo zuiver.

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