"There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a……" — Douglas Sirk
"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 real. You just see reflections"
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Douglas Sirk
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32 Quotes by Douglas Sirk
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If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into…
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I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
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So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They…
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I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.
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This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains…
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I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps…
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There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief…
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For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved…
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Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
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Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.
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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
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Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I…
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More Darkly Quotes
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So as through a glass, and darkly - The age long strife I see - Where I fought in many…
— George S. Patton
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It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before…
— Charles Dickens
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Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass,…
— Pearl S. Buck
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Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.
— Samuel Johnson
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I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
— Anais Nin
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Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The…
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a…
— Alexander Pope
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Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment…
— Arthur W. Pink
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen,…
— Walter Scott
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Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the…
— Bill Buford
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I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.
— Alexander McQueen
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A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the…
— Scott Lynch
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