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. Kathe Kollwitz More Quotes by Kathe Kollwitz More Quotes From Kathe Kollwitz Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed. Kathe Kollwitz carrie answers war 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 easy one to fulfill. Kathe Kollwitz mountain voice suffering 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, until the last small twig has grown. Kathe Kollwitz self-improvement achievement life 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 hard work, but it will be achieved The important thing, until that happens, is to hold one's banner high and to struggle Without struggle there is no life. Kathe Kollwitz struggle war peace I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out. Kathe Kollwitz work-out eye hands Old ideas die hard. We've had thousands of years of women having almost no rights. Parts of the world are in a struggle toward very basic human rights for women, and most of the world isn't even there yet. And it's going to take a long time to change these attitudes. Kathe Kollwitz struggle rights attitude 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 the cannon? Kathe Kollwitz remembrance heroism war I was put in this world to change it. Kathe Kollwitz this-world power world 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 have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate. Kathe Kollwitz drawing responsibility children 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 who looks at my works must be able to sense that. Kathe Kollwitz done blood looks I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary. Kathe Kollwitz revolutionary If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died. Kathe Kollwitz hurt war people Look at life with the eyes of a child. Kathe Kollwitz eye children looks When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart. Kathe Kollwitz sitting men children 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 confused art needs 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 blue sky or moving clouds. Kathe Kollwitz gratitude clouds moving It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible. Kathe Kollwitz aging tasks important 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 run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius — and I count myself among these — have to restore the lost connection once more. Kathe Kollwitz running people art 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 annulled by the periods when I had my technique in hand and succeeded in doing what I wanted. Kathe Kollwitz technique long hands I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect. Kathe Kollwitz dying death
