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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Bertolt Brecht
Art, Reality, Mirrors

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
Reality, Understanding, Desire
"Essays on the Art of Theater". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1954.

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

Bertolt Brecht
Reality, Order, Representation

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. 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
Art, Reality, Discovery
"Essays on the Art of Theater". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1954.

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Bertolt Brecht
Taken, Writing, Reality
Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods become exhausted; stimuli no longer work. New problems appear and demand new methods. 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.

Bertolt Brecht
Reality, Order, Tables

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