Bertolt Brecht Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Reality, Mirrors

• Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands. Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, War, Hands

  "Brecht on Brecht: An Improvisation". Book by George Tabori, 1967.

• For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Mean, Allies

  Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

• All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Art Of Living

• Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Love, Art, Giving

  Bertolt Brecht, Martin Chalmers (2001). “Stories of Mr. Keuner”, p.73, City Lights Books

• Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. ... In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Science, Views

  Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

• Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fashion, Art, Mean

  "A Short Organum for the Theatre". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1949.

• A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy's guts, he comes.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Philosophy, Order

  Bertolt Brecht (1983). “Two Plays by Bertolt Brecht”, Plume Books

• Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Mirrors, Hammers

• It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Reality, Discovery

  "Essays on the Art of Theater". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1954.

• The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Song, Art, Epic

• If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Mirrors, Special

  "A Short Organum for the Theatre". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1949.

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