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 LYNCHIntuition 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.
More David Lynch Quotes
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We’re all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want to figure out what’s going on, so it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful that people are thinking.
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I just like going into strange worlds.
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We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
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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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I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
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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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Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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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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New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
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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.
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I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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Mankind was not meant to suffer — bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.
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Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
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Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
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There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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