"In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics – an almost frozen idea of what beauty is." ― Douglas Sirk Topic(s): Beauty More From Douglas Sirk "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." "And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble." "I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley." More In Beauty "The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman."― Chanakya "To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive."― Jane Austen "March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path."― Khalil Gibran