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

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 right….

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 f….

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 withdra….

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 was put in this world to change it..

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 h….

Look at life with the eyes of a child..

I am in the world to change the world..

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

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..

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..

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?.

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…….

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

My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless... It is all right with me that my work serves….

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

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..

Men without joy seem like corpses..

Culture arises only when the individual fulfills his cycle of obligations. If everyone recognizes and fulfills his cycle of obligations, genuineness ….

I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure ar….