Kathe Kollwitz Quotes

• I have never done any work cold… I have always worked with my blood, so to speak.

  Kathe Kollwitz

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• As you, the children of my body, have been my tasks, so too are my other works.

  Kathe Kollwitz

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• 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

• No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

  Kathe Kollwitz

• Look at life with the eyes of a child.

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• It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.

  Kathe Kollwitz

• I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

  Kathe Kollwitz

• 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

• Fifty years ago in America, law schools had virtually no women students or professors, and their attitude then is much like that in the film industry today. The prevailing opinion was that women don’t want to be lawyers and, anyway, they wouldn’t be good at it; they’re too emotional. But there was a movement that forced schools to change, and nobody today says women aren’t capable lawyers. We’re saying the same thing. Let women in, we’ll show you we can do it.

  Kathe Kollwitz

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• 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

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• No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

  Kathe Kollwitz

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• 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

  Topics in Art, Genius

  Tags in Artist

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

  Kathe Kollwitz

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Kathe Kollwitz (13)

Birth:	8th July, 1867
Death:	22nd April, 1945
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Painter, Sculptor

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