Käthe Kollwitz Short Quotes

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

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Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.

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

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

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

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

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I am afraid of dying — but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

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

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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.

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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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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?

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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.

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I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate. It is my duty to voice the sufferings of people, the sufferings that never end and are as big as mountains.

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The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the life of the nation, but rules out the fatal rivalry among nations.

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