Quotes by Kathe Kollwitz

• 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 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.
• I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
• It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.
• Look at life with the eyes of a child.
• No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.
• 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.
• 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.