David Lynch on creation
David Lynch65 quotes“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.”
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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 LynchDavid Lynch Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
David LynchDavid 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 LynchDavid 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 LynchDavid 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 LynchDavid Lynch Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
David LynchDavid Lynch Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
David LynchDavid Lynch There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
David LynchDavid Lynch Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you’re afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.
David LynchDavid 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 LynchDavid Lynch Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
David LynchDavid Lynch It’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.
David LynchDavid 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 LynchDavid Lynch The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
David LynchDavid Lynch 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.
David LynchDavid Lynch I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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We were dirt poor but we had each other. We didn’t need much to have a lot.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov One quick sip of your memory I let it slip, and I go on without you.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers If the scars on my heart were visible to the naked eye, maybe you’d think twice about inflicting more.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney I am getting better at forgetting you. I am slowly but steadily learning the art of forgetting you.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia Paper and pen petrify me, for they pierce right through me, drawing deep blue blood, leaving me utterly cold.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi Spend time with people who get excited over even the smallest victories you earn.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis I wonder if you were the poison or the antidote.
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Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler There is peace in knowing love is always within her moving through her gracefully she doesn’t need anyone’s permission to create, to grow, to simply just be.
Mila AlexandrovnaMila Alexandrovna I am choosing to create space in my mind for peace.
Shelby EnsignShelby Ensign He pondered, what would make them believe in me? And God created women.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle Creativity is born from you.
Amanda KarchAmanda Karch Some kisses heal scars some create them.
R CliftR Clift It is an act of courage every time you create. Stay brave.
Holly DuxburyHolly Duxbury Love was created for so many reasons and you will always be one of them.
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