“..[in] that gigantic self-portrait we again recognize something of the rite, with which the minister assures us that not the lower, but the Higher is our most precious property. Not a spark of humor has been left here [in her 'Self-portrait', 1932-33] for us poor non-painters.. ..Good Lord, how un-humoristic, heroic, yes dithyrambic one must consider herself, to be able to paint yourself in such a way as Charley Toorop did here. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”