The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
A source page for quotes linked to Kathe Kollwitz.
“Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.”
“I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.”
“I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.”
“When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.”
“Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.”
“No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.”
“I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.”
“Men without joy seem like corpses.”