46 Quotes by Käthe Kollwitz

I am in the world to change the world

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.

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

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

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.

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

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

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.

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.