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.
I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry? - Bertolt Brecht
I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?
- Bertolt Brecht
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost. - Bertolt Brecht
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you! - Bertolt Brecht
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming. - Bertolt Brecht
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. - Bertolt Brecht
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them. - Bertolt Brecht
Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal. - Bertolt Brecht
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
First the pork chops, then morality - Bertolt Brecht
First the pork chops, then morality
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group. - Bertolt Brecht
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.
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