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. …
BERTOLT BRECHTLove is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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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.
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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.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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