46 Quotes by Käthe Kollwitz

How long were the stretches of toilsome tacking back and forth, of being blocked, of being thrown back again and again. But all that was annulled by the periods when I had my technique in hand and succeeded in doing what I wanted.

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

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?

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.

There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case. 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.

Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.

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

When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.