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 LYNCHThe artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
More David Lynch Quotes
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The world is as you are.
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Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
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I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
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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 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’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
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I just like going into strange worlds.
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Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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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 love seeing people come out of darkness.
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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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Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.
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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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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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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 like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
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New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
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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.
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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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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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Float with me in the world of ether.
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A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.
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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
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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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