Pro and Con

Part of our job here at Essential Arts is to reconcile the truth of both these quotes:

from Bertolt Brecht:

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

from Sam Lipsyte, The Ask:

I got a question for you. A quiz. Answer this correctly and I'll give you a twenty percent raise right now. In what year did Bertolt Brecht create the vaccine for polio?