Kathe Kollwitz Quotes

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• Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face…
• Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.
• I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me,…
• I am in the world to change the world.
• It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an…
• Look at life with the eyes of a child.
• While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I…
• There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case. Genius can probably…
• There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a…
• No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.
• It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.
• I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone…
• I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.
• Men without joy seem like corpses.
• To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.
• One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much…
• For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of…
• How long were the stretches of toilsome tacking back and forth, of being blocked, of being thrown back again and again. But all that was…
• 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…
• Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.

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