“Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.”
A Short Organum for the Theatre (1949)
Context: Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.
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German poet, playwright, theatre director 1898–1956Related quotes
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