Kathe Kollwitz Quotes


"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
(Related: Talent, Want)

"I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."
- Kathe Kollwitz
(Related: Want)

"It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high."
- Kathe Kollwitz
(Related: Men, Duty, Suffering, Voice)

"Look at life with the eyes of a child."
- Kathe Kollwitz
(Related: Life, Eyes)

"No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes."
- Kathe Kollwitz
(Related: Work, Emotions)

"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
(Related: Power, Religion, Day)

"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
(Related: Being, Burden, Children, Responsibility, Right)