Kathe Kollwitz Quotes about War

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

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

War, Answers, Carrie

Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.184, Northwestern University Press

One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achieved The important thing, until that happens, is to hold one's banner high and to struggle Without struggle there is no life.

Kathe Kollwitz

Peace, War, Struggle

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

Kathe Kollwitz

War, Remembrance, Heroism

Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.62, Northwestern University Press

If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.

Kathe Kollwitz

Hurt, War, People

Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.87, Northwestern University Press

I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art.... but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art.

Kathe Kollwitz

Art, War, Long

"Letters of Friendship and Acquaintance" [Briefe der Freundschaft und Begegnungen] edited by Hans Kollwitz, p. 95; cited in "Käthe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist" by Martha Kearns, (p. 172), 1976.

Recently I began reading my old diaries. Back to before the war. Gradually I became very depressed. The reason for that is probably that I wrote only when there were obstacles and halts to the flow of life, seldom when everything was smooth and even. ... As I read I distinctly felt what a half-truth a diary presents.

Kathe Kollwitz

War, Reading, Flow

Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.111, Northwestern University Press