Arise Quote by Kathe Kollwitz

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

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…

— Kathe Kollwitz

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

— Kathe Kollwitz

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

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone isalways stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

— Käthe Kollwitz

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

I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.

— Kathe Kollwitz

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

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

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

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

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