Kathe Kollwitz Quotes

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.

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.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

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.

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.