Käthe Kollwitz - Work Quotes

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I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first. When both the boys went away for Easter, I hardly did anything but work. Worked, slept, ate and went for short walks. But above all I worked. And yet I wonder whether the "blessing" is not missing from such work. No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Käthe Kollwitz
I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.

Käthe Kollwitz
Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

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Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is hard work.

Käthe 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 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.

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

Käthe Kollwitz
I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art.... but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art.

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For work, one must be hard and thrust outside of oneself what one has lived through.

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

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

Käthe Kollwitz