Douglas Sirk Quote

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.


Sirk on Sirk: interviews with Jon Halliday (ed. Harvill Secker, 1971)


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...

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...

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...

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...