Quoted in Käthe Kollwitz: Graphics, Posters, Drawings (1981) by Renate Hinz
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Context: 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.
Käthe Kollwitz: Working
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“I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first.”
Diary entry (April 1910).
The Diary and Letters of Käthe Kollwitz (1955)
Context: I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first. When both the boys went away for Easter, I hardly did anything but work. Worked, slept, ate and went for short walks. But above all I worked. And yet I wonder whether the "blessing" is not missing from such work. No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.
“Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is hard work.”
Diary entry (21 February 1944).
The Diary and Letters of Käthe Kollwitz (1955)
Quoted in Käthe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist (1976) by Martha Kearns The Feminist Press, ISBN 0-912-67015-0, p. 82.
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Diary entry (12 January 1912).
The Diary and Letters of Käthe Kollwitz (1955)
Letters of Friendship and Acquaintance [Briefe der Freundschaft und Begegnungen] (1966), edited by Hans Kollwitz, p. 95; cited in Käthe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist (1976) by Martha Kearns, p. 172.
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“For work, one must be hard and thrust outside of oneself what one has lived through.”
Journal August 22 1916 Voices of German Expressionism ISBN 9781854374813
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