If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
BERTOLT BRECHTSuppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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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.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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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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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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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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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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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.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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