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

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

Douglas Sirk

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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

glasses real reflection

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.

style belief art

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

naughty hands dirty

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.

average people ideas

And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.

picture only different world

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

same political time art

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always... by Douglas Sirk

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

thought great think heart

Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.

picture never me man

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying... by Douglas Sirk

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

end new war art