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 LYNCHI don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
More David Lynch Quotes
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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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The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
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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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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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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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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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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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I just like going into strange worlds.
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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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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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The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
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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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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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Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
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