Bertolt Brecht Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• 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. ... 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

  Art, Science, Views

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

• 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.

• 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.

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