I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share
Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share
At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share
The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share
Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share
I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share
This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share
