Art Quote by Bertolt Brecht Download Open image “Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.” — Bertolt Brecht ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Hammers Mirrors
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“Art is not a mirror to hold up to reality, rather a hammer to shape it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Art is not a mirror held up to society but a hammer with which to shape it.” — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility is to… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who… — Darryl Anka 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image