Kollwitz Art Quotes & Sayings

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. — Kathe Kollwitz

Even so the more a vicious man denies his vice, the more does it insinuate itself and master him: as those people really poor who pretend to be rich get still more poor from their false display. — Plutarch

I thought I was growing wings
it was a cocoon.
I thought, now is the time to step
into the fire
it was deep water.
Eschatology is a word I learned
as a child: the study of Last Things;
facing my mirror - no longer young,
the news - always of death,
the dogs - rising from sleep and clamoring
and howling, howling ...
("Seeing For a Moment") — Denise Levertov

Logan's gaze swung back to Galen. His eyes crinkled in the corners and a genuine smile appeared. "Did you just make a jest? Galen Shaw, you surprise me." "I have to do something to save myself from Hayden. — Donna Grant

If you don't work hard today, you will work hard to find a work tomorrow. — Aiza Olsen

To try to pray is to pray. You can't fail at it. Nobody can ... It's the only human endeavor I can think of where trying is doing. Reaching out is holding on. Joining in is letting go. — Rick Hamlin

Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment. — Kathe Kollwitz

Perhaps she was waiting for me. Perhaps she had ordered the woods to open a path. — Sarah J. Maas

I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion. — Frederick Lenz

May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth. — Marquis De Lafayette

The good terrorists are the guys who bomb and kill Indians. The bad terrorists are the ones who attack Pakistani interests, whether in Afghanistan or Pakistan. In other words, you blow up the Taj Mahal Hotel, you are a good guy. You blow up the Marriott in Islamabad, you are a bad guy. — Shashi Tharoor

Sometimes I dream so vividly, so expectantly, I wonder if I'm crazy ... — Christy Hall

You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae — Larry McMurtry

I don't have a lot of style icons. There are not a lot of people today who I look to. — Sophia Amoruso

I don't really need to explain this to Aaron. He's been demoted — Ned Vizzini