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David Lynch Quotes | Quotes said by David Lynch

  • David Lynch Quote #1

    A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.


  • David Lynch Quote #2

    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 Quote #3

    Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

  • David Lynch Quote #4

    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 Quote #5

    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 Quote #6

    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 Quote #7

    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 Quote #8

    I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.

  • David Lynch Quote #9

    I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something, like 'cut' or 'bruise,' people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don't know what it is, it can be very beautiful.

  • David Lynch Quote #10

    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 Quote #11

    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 Quote #12

    I quit smoking in December. I’m really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss lighting cigarettes. I like the whole thing about it, to me it turns into the artist’s life, and now people like Bloomberg have made animals out of smokers, and they think that if they stop smoking everyone will live forever.

  • David Lynch Quote #13

    I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

  • David Lynch Quote #14

    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 Quote #15

    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 Quote #16

    Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.

  • David Lynch Quote #17

    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 Quote #18

    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 Quote #19

    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 Quote #20

    New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

  • David Lynch Quote #21

    People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that I truly fall in love with. And a good movie idea is often like a girl you're in love with, but you know she's not the kind of girl you bring home to your parents, because they sometimes hold some dark and troubling things.

  • David Lynch Quote #22

    Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

  • David Lynch Quote #23

    Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

  • David Lynch Quote #24

    Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

  • David Lynch Quote #25

    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 Quote #26

    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 Quote #27

    This idea comes to you, you can see it, but to accomplish it you need what I call a setup. For example, you may need a working shop or a working painting studio. You may beed a working music studio. Or a computer room where you can write something. It's crucial to have a setup, so that, at any given moment, when you get an idea, you have the place and the tools to make it happen. If you don't have a setup, there are many times when you get the inspiration, the idea, but you have no tools, no place to put it together. And the idea just sits there and festers. Overtime, it will go away. You didn't filfill it--and that's just a heartache.

  • David Lynch Quote #28

    Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.

  • David Lynch Quote #29

    Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

  • David Lynch Quote #30

    What I really like is to be at home, working.

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