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Quotes from The Diary and Letters of Käthe Kollwitz — Käthe Kollwitz

1867–1945 Germany

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I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first.

The Diary and Letters of Käthe Kollwitz (1955)

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

The Diary and Letters of Käthe Kollwitz (1955)

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

The Diary and Letters of Käthe Kollwitz (1955)

There must be understanding between the artist and the people.

The Diary and Letters of Käthe Kollwitz (1955)

I have been through a revolution, and I am convinced that I am no revolutionist.

The Diary and Letters of Käthe Kollwitz (1955)

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.

The Diary and Letters of Käthe Kollwitz (1955)

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

The Diary and Letters of Käthe Kollwitz (1955)

Every war already carries within it the war that will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything is smashed. That is why I am so wholeheartedly for a radical end to this madness and why my only hope is in world socialism.

The Diary and Letters of Käthe Kollwitz (1955)

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. Bourgeois life on the whole seemed to me pedantic.

The Diary and Letters of Käthe Kollwitz (1955)

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