I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
DAVID LYNCHMankind was not meant to suffer — bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.
More David Lynch Quotes
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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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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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Individual peace is the unit of world peace.
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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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I just like going into strange worlds.
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Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.
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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 like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
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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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Mankind was not meant to suffer — bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.
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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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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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I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
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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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It’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.
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