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• As in everything else, I find that age is not good for much, that one becomes deafer and less sensitive. Also, the higher up the mountain you climb, the less of a view you get. A mist closes in and cheats you of the hoped-for and expected opportunity to see far and wide.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Opportunity, Views, Age

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.164, Northwestern University Press

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• Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Art, Growing, Process

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.57, Northwestern University Press

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• How long were the stretches of toilsome tacking back and forth, of being blocked, of being thrown back again and again. But all that was annulled by the periods when I had my technique in hand and succeeded in doing what I wanted.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Hands, Long, Technique

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.120, Northwestern University Press

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• Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Artistic, Homosexuality, Masculinity

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.23, Northwestern University Press

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• The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the life of the nation, but rules out the fatal rivalry among nations.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Development, Spirit, Blind

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• Men without joy seem like corpses.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Men, Joy, Corpses

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

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• For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Beauty, Class, People

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.43, Northwestern University Press

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• 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.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Inspired, Knows, Related

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.164, Northwestern University Press

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