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The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is what that human being radiates out into the world. -- David Lynch
So much of what happened to me is good fortune. But I would say: Try to get a job that gives you some time; get your sleep and a little bit of food; and work as much as you can. There's so much enjoyment in doing what you love. Maybe this will open doors, and you'll find a way to do what you love. -- David Lynch
I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had. -- David Lynch
Domestic violence and violence against women in general seems to be a big problem everywhere in the world. It seems to me this problem comes from stress, pent up anger, frustration, and all kinds of negativity within human beings. -- David Lynch
You get all the puzzle parts together enough to say the puzzle is complete. It's a script. In the process of realizing that, new ideas can come, one way or another. Through a happy accident, they just come to you. -- David Lynch
Well, I've been blessed with good hair, or at least some people think it is. It is the way it is, sort of does what it wants to. So, yeah, I guess it is [a metaphor for your views on art and life]. -- David Lynch
Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a field of infinite, unbounded peace within every human being, and when you experience it, you enliven that peace. -- David Lynch
Been trying the soapy water and instant coffee method. Works somewhat, but boy it tastes terrible. I don't know how you guys can stand it. I'm going back to milk and espresso for my cappas. -- David Lynch
I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on the surface, not so deep. Beneath it was hollow. Up until that time, I had been thinking meditation was a joke, a fad and a waste of time. -- David Lynch
Don't fight the darkness. Don't even worry about the darkness. Turn on the light and the darkness goes. Turn up that light of pure consciousness: Negativity goes. -- David Lynch
The nervous system functions in a fourth, unique way, as different as dreaming is from sleeping as sleeping is from waking. When you transcend, it's the only experience that lights the full brain on an EEG machine. It's the only experience that utilizes the full brain. -- David Lynch
I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times. -- David Lynch
My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood
like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful. -- David Lynch
It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up. -- David Lynch
I have smoked marijuana, but I no longer do. I went to art school in the 1960s so you can imagine what was going on. Yet my friends were the ones who said, "No, no, no, David, don't take those drugs." I was pretty lucky. -- David Lynch
Every single thing in the world that was made by anyone started with an idea. So to catch one that is powerful enough to fall in love with, it is one of the most beautiful experiences. It's like being jolted with electricity and knowledge at the same time. -- David Lynch
The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day. -- David Lynch
I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go. -- David Lynch
When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time ... and my father would bring paper home ... and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns ... that was my favorite -- David Lynch
I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper. -- David Lynch
I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out. -- David Lynch
But if you know that you've got to be somewhere in half an hour, there's no way you can achieve that. So the art life means a freedom to have time for the good things to happen. There's not always a lot of time for other things. -- David Lynch
I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb. -- David Lynch
I like L.A. because of the light. The light makes me feel so good. It's really beautiful. And there's something about L.A. being so spread out that gives you a feeling of freedom. Light and freedom. -- David Lynch
I like to make films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost in another world. And film to me is a magical medium that makes you dream ... allows you to dream in the dark. It's just a fantastic thing, to get lost inside the world of film. -- David Lynch
There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner. -- David Lynch
Everyone is on the internet but they're not all talking with each other. There are groups upon groups out there, but they don't talk to one another. So while the internet brings everyone into a shared space, it does not necessarily bring them together. -- David Lynch
Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas. -- David Lynch
Because you make a world that didn't exist before, and you can go into that world deeper and deeper. It's unbounded out there. One film takes you into one area, another film takes you into another area. There could be trillions, zillions of worlds that exist in the big space. -- David Lynch
I have been 'diving within' through the Transcendental Meditation technique for over 30 years. It has changed my life, my world. I am not alone. Millions of other people of all ages, religions, and walks of life practice the technique and enjoy incredible benefits. -- David Lynch
I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn. -- David Lynch
He whose happiness is within, whose contentment is within, whose light is all within, that yogi, being one with Brahman, attains eternal freedom in divine consciousness. BHAGAVAD-GITA -- David Lynch
People think in Hollywood there's a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it's just not that way at all to me. -- David Lynch
Transcendental Meditation is not a religion, it's not against any religion, it's for human beings, no matter what color, what religion, what walk of life. If you're a human being, it will work for you. And you will be very glad you found this technique and took advantage of it. -- David Lynch
As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them. -- David Lynch
Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school's curriculum. -- David Lynch
Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those. -- David Lynch
I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing. -- David Lynch
You don't dive for specific solutions; you dive to enliven that ocean of consciousness. Then your intuition grows and you have a way of solving those problems-knowing when it's not quite right and knowing a way to make it feel correct for you. That capacity grows and things go much more smoothly. -- David Lynch
I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you're quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you're going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they're going to hit you. -- David Lynch
During the course of a day, some dark feeling comes, maybe some sadness comes, some thrill, some great happiness, some strange humor. Cinema can embrace all that in one story, just as the story of life. -- David Lynch
If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that's all you can control. You can't control any of what's out there, outside yourself. -- David Lynch
The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing. -- David Lynch
One change of attitude would change everything. If everyone realized that it could be a beautiful world and said, 'let's not do these things anymore - let's have fun.' -- David Lynch
We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it's a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal. -- David Lynch
Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside. -- David Lynch
Mankind was not meant to suffer
bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock. -- David Lynch
In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point. -- David Lynch
Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It's people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It's a beautiful thing. -- David Lynch
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me! -- David Lynch
I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry. -- David Lynch
The ocean of solutions is within, enliven that ... It's a world of clues, a world of mystery but the mystery can get solved, you can find a lot of answers for these things within. -- David Lynch
I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist. -- David Lynch
The artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. Have it on the screen but have the people come out of the theater into a world of peace, of a beautiful world. They don't have to suffer in their lives. -- David Lynch
Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces. -- David Lynch
I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon. -- David Lynch
Sometimes film kills the room to dream. -- David Lynch
It's maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and prettier and prettier and prettier. -- David Lynch
Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and ... it's like attempting for something. -- David Lynch
The interesting thing that happens for many people when they first start meditating is that they'll be doing it for a few months, and they will begin to change, but the experience is so subtle that they're not even aware of it. -- David Lynch
In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent -- David Lynch
I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That's why I love coffee shops and public places - I mean, they're all out there. -- David Lynch
Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life. -- David Lynch
I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me. -- David Lynch
Individual peace is the unit of world peace. -- David Lynch
Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the world. You're strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world. -- David Lynch
Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits. -- David Lynch
Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful. -- David Lynch
I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla. -- David Lynch
That state of simplest form of awareness alone, is worthy of seeing, hearing, contemplating and realizing. -- David Lynch
When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life. -- David Lynch
It doesn't do any good to say, 'This is what it means.' When you are spoon fed a film, people instantly know what it is. I like films that leave room to dream. -- David Lynch
Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity. -- David Lynch
The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. -- David Lynch
I truly believe there is a field of peace within and that it can be enlivened and brought to the surface to be enjoyed by all. -- David Lynch
We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to reconcile those opposing things. I've always liked both sides. In order to appreciate one you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too. -- David Lynch
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too. -- David Lynch
You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum. -- David Lynch
I just love musicians. They're not all super-happy all the time, but when they're playing they're happy, and it's such a beautiful thing. -- David Lynch
In today's world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence-bliss-t he enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us. This is the way to save the coming generation. -- David Lynch
Unfortunately, my ideas are not what you'd call commercial, and money really drives the boat these days. So I don't know what my future is. I don't have a clue what I'm going to be able to do in the world of cinema. -- David Lynch
The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you. -- David Lynch
Every human being has consciousness, but not every human being has the same amount. The potential for each one of us human beings is infinite consciousness. This is called supreme enlightenment, and it just needs unfolding by transcending each day. The more consciousness we have, the better life is. -- David Lynch
My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me. -- David Lynch
Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on. -- David Lynch
Every single person has within an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness. Every single human being can experience that - infinite intelligence, infinite creativity, infinite happiness, infinite energy, infinite dynamic peace. -- David Lynch
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically. -- David Lynch
All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds. -- David Lynch
New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts. -- David Lynch
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual. -- David Lynch
There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery -- David Lynch
Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle. -- David Lynch
I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened. -- David Lynch
Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood. -- David Lynch
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to. -- David Lynch
Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen. -- David Lynch
In the world there's a thing called collective consciousness. All of us billions of human beings together create that collective consciousness. With all the problems in our world, you can see that the collective consciousness is not so high. -- David Lynch
If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience. -- David Lynch
Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now we say the artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand the human condition, understand the suffering. -- David Lynch
Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day. -- David Lynch
Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you're born. -- David Lynch
Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away is money in the bank. When you're suffering you can't create. -- David Lynch
Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound. -- David Lynch
More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't. -- David Lynch
I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of money, and that was the tradeoff. But, music and picture can marry in a beautiful way, and the reverse also. -- David Lynch
Absurdity is what I like most in life. -- David Lynch
It's important that a film is loud and I hope many people agree. You should be inside of a film when you go into a theater. It should surround you, envelope you, so you can live inside a dream. -- David Lynch
I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then. -- David Lynch
I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is. -- David Lynch
The house is a place where things can go wrong. -- David Lynch
If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time. -- David Lynch
I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal. -- David Lynch
Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it's okay. But beforehand, it's murder. -- David Lynch
It's crazy to close doors to any genres. -- David Lynch
Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions. -- David Lynch
I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within. -- David Lynch
Every teacher of Transcendental Meditation is a hero. -- David Lynch
I've seen so many cases where lives have been transformed for the good and heard so many stories about this. The technique of Transcendental Meditation really works for the human being. -- David Lynch
This is a donut. It is very sweet, and very good. But if you've never tasted a donut, you wouldn't really know how sweet and how good a donut is ... meditation is like that. Transcendental Meditation gives an experience much sweeter than the sweetness of this donut. -- David Lynch
Consciousness-based education, which I am helping to promote, is basically the same education that good schools are giving today with Transcendental Meditation added for the students, teachers, staff, and principal. -- David Lynch
Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, at the border of intellect, you transcend and experience it. -- David Lynch
Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation. -- David Lynch
Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique. -- David Lynch
Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate. -- David Lynch
I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every time. -- David Lynch
The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead. -- David Lynch
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs. -- David Lynch
The more you meditate the better life gets. -- David Lynch
A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity. -- David Lynch
Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all. -- David Lynch
Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money. -- David Lynch
You don't need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere. -- David Lynch
Angelo Badalamenti brought me into the world of music and that's really what gave me permission to get into it even though I'm not a musician. It's just an intuitive thing for me. -- David Lynch
Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things. -- David Lynch
When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to do certain things and make them right in my mind and that's it. -- David Lynch
My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity. -- David Lynch
I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues. -- David Lynch
I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. -- David Lynch
I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. -- David Lynch
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. -- David Lynch
Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there. -- David Lynch
When the going gets tough, everyone leaves. -- David Lynch
The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience. -- David Lynch
I know club music has to be infectious and it's got to make you move. -- David Lynch
Cigarettes are pretty much my worst vice, and I even stopped smoking for 20 years. I spend most of my free time with my family and working on art. -- David Lynch
Everybody's got creativity. Dive within to the ocean of infinite creativity. -- David Lynch
I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was. -- David Lynch
I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness. -- David Lynch
Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all. -- David Lynch
I have a profound admiration for Fellini. I met him lately and he's just fantastic. I feel very close to him even though he's very Italian. But his films could have been made in every country. When I say, I feel close to him, then also because we're both born on January 20th. -- David Lynch
I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint ... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much. -- David Lynch
As a teenager, I was really trying to have fun 24 hours a day. I didn't start thinking until I was 20 or 21. I was doing regular goof-ball stuff. -- David Lynch
I think true love is not only true personal love but totality of love, universal love - to be in love with everything manifest and everything unmanifest. -- David Lynch
I love industry. Pipes. I love fluid and smoke. I love man-made things. I like to see people hard at work, and I like to see sludge and man-made waste. -- David Lynch
There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments. -- David Lynch
Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits. -- David Lynch
The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It's a creativity that creates everything that is a thing - it's mighty powerful creativity. -- David Lynch
I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just ... way out cool. -- David Lynch
When you get an idea and you fall in love with it there's not a whole lot of choice. You're going down a street and you meet this girl and you know it doesn't have to make any sense. Bingo! You're in love. -- David Lynch
To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times. -- David Lynch
The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood. -- David Lynch
I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories. -- David Lynch
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music. -- David Lynch
Everything I learned in my life, I learned because I decided to try something new. -- David Lynch
I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy. -- David Lynch
I like things to be orderly. -- David Lynch
See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of. -- David Lynch
Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life. -- David Lynch
There is an ocean of creativity within every human being. -- David Lynch
It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let things keep happening. -- David Lynch
I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit of melancholy. I had a lot of anger for my situations in life, and I would take this out on my first wife. -- David Lynch
The ideas dictate everything. -- David Lynch
We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment. -- David Lynch
A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene. -- David Lynch
I love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I don't really like to know very much ahead of time. I like the feeling of dicovery. -- David Lynch
I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it. -- David Lynch
I don't think anybody really loves the sound of their own voice, but the tweakability is huge. -- David Lynch
You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people. -- David Lynch
Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist. -- David Lynch
Intuition is seeing the solution.....its emotion and intellect going together. -- David Lynch
The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is. -- David Lynch
Nowadays, people shoot digitally and it's all in color, but you press a button and it all goes to black and white. But it's not lit for black and white. So, it's a tricky thing. If you're going do black and white, you better remember to separate things with light, because color ain't gonna be there. -- David Lynch
The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood. -- David Lynch
I didn't know anything about film when I first started - I was a painter - but I [always] felt that sound was just as important as the picture. The sound, picture, and ideas have to marry. If an idea carries with it a mood, sound is critical to making that mood. -- David Lynch
You could say that spirituality is bliss, and bliss is physical happiness, emotional happiness, mental happiness, and spiritual happiness. And it's intense. It's an intense happiness. It brings you together with everything. -- David Lynch
There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us. -- David Lynch
Float with me in the world of ether. -- David Lynch
I love the French. They're the biggest film buffs and protectors of cinema in the world. They really look out for the filmmaker and the rights of the filmmaker, and they believe in final cut. -- David Lynch
Chrysta Bell looks like a dream and Chrysta Bell sings like a dream. And the dream is coming true. -- David Lynch
My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa. -- David Lynch
I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut. -- David Lynch
A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting. -- David Lynch
Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower. -- David Lynch
We only dream of images we already have inside of us. -- David Lynch
A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it. -- David Lynch
What I really like is to be at home, working. -- David Lynch
When you see an aging or a rusted bridge, you are seeing nature and man working together. If you paint over a building there is no more magic to that building. But if it is allowed to age, then man has built it and nature has added into it - it's so organic. -- David Lynch
I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's a couple, and I don't even know exactly why I don't like them. -- David Lynch
Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is. -- David Lynch
I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature. -- David Lynch
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition. -- David Lynch
It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film. -- David Lynch
You've got to let accidents and strange things happen - let it work, so it's got an organic sort of quality ... By trying to remove yourself you can see some fantastic things sometimes. -- David Lynch
Achievement is its own reward -- David Lynch
I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath. -- David Lynch
A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things. -- David Lynch
When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema. -- David Lynch
Music has fed me a lot of ideas ... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET. -- David Lynch
Everybody's got creativity. You just get more of it [when you meditate]. -- David Lynch
Man is evolving ... but it's difficult to see his progress with a Western perception of time. The Hindus think of time in much larger segments. They watch the hour hand of the clock while we in the West are preoccupied with the second hand. -- David Lynch
It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else. -- David Lynch
Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it's the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It's the body that is changing around that ageless center. -- David Lynch
Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day. -- David Lynch
I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that? -- David Lynch
The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering. -- David Lynch
I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool! -- David Lynch
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. -- David Lynch
I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth. -- David Lynch
I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. -- David Lynch
I just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to find those magical things. Then I don't care what else happens. -- David Lynch
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things. -- David Lynch
It's important to listen to lots of different genres because you never know when something will get born out of it. -- David Lynch
A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it. -- David Lynch
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination. -- David Lynch
You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for. -- David Lynch
What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough. -- David Lynch
I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one. -- David Lynch
An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well. -- David Lynch
I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way, feature films I think have become cheap. Everything is kind of throwaway. It's experienced and then forgotten. -- David Lynch
Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole. -- David Lynch
In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone. -- David Lynch
Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas. -- David Lynch
I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world. -- David Lynch
I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes. -- David Lynch
You can understand conflict, but you don'thave to live in it. -- David Lynch
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. -- David Lynch
Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you. -- David Lynch
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. -- David Lynch
Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy -- David Lynch
To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words. -- David Lynch
The world is as you are. -- David Lynch
I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with my teeth. -- David Lynch
If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. -- David Lynch
Negativity is the enemy of creativity. -- David Lynch
Constrong>sstrong>cioustrong>sstrong>nestrong>sstrong>strong>sstrong>-Bastrong>sstrong>ed Education istrong>sstrong> justrong>sstrong>t plugging ustrong>sstrong> all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching thingstrong>sstrong> get better, which istrong>sstrong> what happenstrong>sstrong>. It'strong>sstrong> a field of infinite, unbounded peace within every human being, and when you experience it, you enliven that peace. -- David Lynch