Now in theory, if there is no straight line in the universe, this has its effect on art. Art must consist of something bent, something curved.
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So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.Douglas Sirk
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