Look at life with the eyes of a child.

- Kathe Kollwitz

I am in the world to change the world.

- Kathe Kollwitz

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

- Kathe Kollwitz

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…

- Kathe Kollwitz

I was put in this world to change it.

- Kathe Kollwitz

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…

- Kathe Kollwitz

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…

- Kathe Kollwitz

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…

- Kathe Kollwitz

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

- Kathe Kollwitz