Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“In my poetry a rhyme Would seem to me almost insolent. Inside me contend Delight at the apple tree in blossom And horror at… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“The law was made for one thing alone,for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
