5 Bertolt Brecht Quotes on Change

Bertolt Brecht quotes on change

12. 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.

16. Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

34. We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

60. Little changes are the enemies of great changes.

70. Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.