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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 Lynch

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
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.
DAVID LYNCH

Disturb Exploration Hide Myself Mystery Place Poetry Truth
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
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
DAVID LYNCH

Heart Top Wild World
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
DAVID LYNCH

Mystery Powerful Sex Way
A filmmaker doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don’t have to die to shoot a death scene.
DAVID LYNCH

Death Movie Scene Suffering Yourself
Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
DAVID LYNCH

Importance Time
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
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
DAVID LYNCH

Play Sound Visual
It’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Failure Freedom Greatness Journey Path Way
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
The world is as you are.
DAVID LYNCH

One Liner World Yourself
Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
DAVID LYNCH

Creativity Enemy Negative
My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
DAVID LYNCH

Cow Myself Perspective Sight
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 LYNCH

Beautiful Detective Life People Thinking Yourself
Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
DAVID LYNCH

Abstract Art Sanity

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.

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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.

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