Culture arises only when the individual fulfills his cycle of obligations. If everyone recognizes and fulfills his cycle of obligations, genuineness emerges. The culture of a whole nation can in the final analysis be built upon nothing else. — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless... It is all right with me that my work serves a purpose. I want to have an effect on my time, in which human beings are so confused and in need of help. — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share
How long were the stretches of toilsome tacking back and forth, of being blocked, of being thrown back again and again. But all that… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone isalways stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. — Käthe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
Recently I began reading my old diaries. Back to before the war. Gradually I became very depressed. The reason for that is probably that… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
As in everything else, I find that age is not good for much, that one becomes deafer and less sensitive. Also, the higher up… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
