The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
BERTOLT BRECHTOh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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The fate of man is man.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Life is short and so is money.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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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. …
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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