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I don’t like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don’t really understand the word ‘irony’ too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it’s much more exalted.

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

Beautiful Feeling Kind Music Night People Right Trouble
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

Absurd Confusion Darkness Happiness Safety Weird
Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are.
DAVID LYNCH

Confusion Darkness Interest Myself Way
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
DAVID LYNCH

Darkness Fire Future Magic Myself Past See Walk
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

Human Intuition Knowledge Ocean Solution Start Yourself
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

Add Discover Ideal Movie World
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

Emotion Intellectual Intuition Key Night Paint Togetherness
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
DAVID LYNCH

Adult Experience Imagination Thinking Understand
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

Build Experience Movie Sound
Mankind was not meant to suffer — bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.
DAVID LYNCH

Kind Man Nature Ourselves Rock Suffering
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

Connection Existence Ideas Myself Thinking
There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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Ocean Oneself Purity Vibrant
The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
DAVID LYNCH

Artist Show Suffering
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

Desire Eyes Temptation Work Yourself
Absurdity is what I like most in life.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Life Myself
There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
DAVID LYNCH

Fear Mystery Unknown

I don’t like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don’t really understand the word ‘irony’ too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it’s much more exalted.

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I don’t like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don’t really understand the word ‘irony’ too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it’s much more exalted.

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