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 LYNCHThe world is as you are.
More David Lynch Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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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.
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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.
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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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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.
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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.
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Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen, I love the process of going into mystery.
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We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
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The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
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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.
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