black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Desire Reality Understanding
Life is short and so is money.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Cute Life Money Short
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
BERTOLT BRECHT

Storm Tree Violent
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

Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Happiness Hero Land
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Giving Love Wish
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Mean World
First the grub, then the morals.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Dammed Easy Important
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Deserve Innocent Shots
People who understand everything get no stories.
BERTOLT BRECHT

People Stories Understand
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Feelings Historical Theatre
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
BERTOLT BRECHT

Politics Suppose War
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Anticipation Death Life
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertolt Brecht Quotes