"In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art……" — Douglas Sirk
"In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is."
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32 Quotes by Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into…
- I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
- So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They…
- I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.
- This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains…
- There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't…
- I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps…
- There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief…
- For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved…
- Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
- Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.
- Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I…
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