Mankind was not meant to suffer — bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.
DAVID LYNCHI just like going into strange worlds.
More David Lynch Quotes
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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
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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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There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
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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.
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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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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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The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It’s a creativity that creates everything that is a thing – it’s mighty powerful creativity.
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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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You don’t need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.
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Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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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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All my movies are about strange worlds that you can’t go into unless you build them and film them. That’s what’s so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.
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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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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 know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
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Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
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I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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