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Top 25 Käthe Kollwitz Quotes (2025 Update)

Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “Look at life with the eyes of a child.”

1. “Look at life with the eyes of a child.”

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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “Old ideas die hard. We’ve had thousands of years of women having almost no rights. Parts of the world are in a struggle toward very basic human rights for women, and most of the world isn’t even there yet. And it’s going to take a long time to change these attitudes.”

2. “Old ideas die hard. We’ve had thousands of years of women having almost no rights. Parts of the world are in a struggle toward very basic human rights for women, and most of the world isn’t even there yet. And it’s going to take a long time to change these attitudes.”

— Käthe Kollwitz

Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn’t always work out.”

3. “I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn’t always work out.”

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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.”

4. “I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.”

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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.”

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

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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.”

6. “It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.”

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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.”

7. “Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.”

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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.”

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

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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an easy one to fulfill.”

9. “It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an easy one to fulfill.”

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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.”

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

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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “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?”

11. “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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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.”

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

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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Käthe Kollwitz

Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achieved? The important thing, until that happens, is to hold one’s banner high and to struggle? Without struggle there is no life.”

15. “One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achieved? The important thing, until that happens, is to hold one’s banner high and to struggle? Without struggle there is no life.”

— Käthe Kollwitz

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

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

— Käthe Kollwitz

Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Käthe Kollwitz

Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “I was put in this world to change it.”

18. “I was put in this world to change it.”

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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “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.”

19. “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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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child’s pushcart.”

20. “When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child’s pushcart.”

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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.”

21. “For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.”

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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “Men without joy seem like corpses.”

22. “Men without joy seem like corpses.”

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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “As in everything else, I find that age is not good for much, that one becomes deafer and less sensitive. Also, the higher up the mountain you climb, the less of a view you get. A mist closes in and cheats you of the hoped-for and expected opportunity to see far and wide...”

24. “As in everything else, I find that age is not good for much, that one becomes deafer and less sensitive. Also, the higher up the mountain you climb, the less of a view you get. A mist closes in and cheats you of the hoped-for and expected opportunity to see far and wide...”

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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

— Käthe Kollwitz

Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “Culture arises only when the individual fulfills his cycle of obligations. If everyone recognizes and fulfills his cycle of obligations, genuineness emerges. The culture of a whole nation can in the final analysis be built upon nothing else.”

26. “Culture arises only when the individual fulfills his cycle of obligations. If everyone recognizes and fulfills his cycle of obligations, genuineness emerges. The culture of a whole nation can in the final analysis be built upon nothing else.”

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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.”

27. “I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.”

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Käthe Kollwitz Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

— Käthe Kollwitz

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