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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 a purpose. I want to have an effect on my time, in which human beings are so confused and in need of help.

Kathe Kollwitz
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Kathe Kollwitz's Popular Quotes

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

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I am in the world to change the world.

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Look at life with the eyes of a child.

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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…

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I was put in this world to change it.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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