45 Quotes by Douglas Sirk

This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.

I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.