David Lynch Quotes

I just love musicians. They're not all super-happy all the time, but when they're playing they're happy, and it's such a beautiful thing.

My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.

Sometimes film kills the room to dream.

Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.

Float with me in the world of ether.

Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.

The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.

Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.

It's crazy to close doors to any genres.

It's important to listen to lots of different genres because you never know when something will get born out of it.

True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within.

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

With each experience of the unbounded ocean of consciousness, you infuse it into your life and therefore expand whatever consciousness you had to begin with.

The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is what that human being radiates out into the world.

One change of attitude would change everything. If everyone realized that it could be a beautiful world and said, 'let's not do these things anymore - let's have fun.'

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just... way out cool.

More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

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.

Individual peace is the unit of world peace.

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with my teeth.

I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.

The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me.

Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.

The technology can change, but storytelling remains the same. It's just a digital world now instead of an analog world, but now the storytelling's the same. You got different tools. That's all.

You've got to let accidents and strange things happen - let it work, so it's got an organic sort of quality ... By trying to remove yourself you can see some fantastic things sometimes.

I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon.

My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.

Well, I've been blessed with good hair, or at least some people think it is. It is the way it is, sort of does what it wants to. So, yeah, I guess it is [a metaphor for your views on art and life].

In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent

I'm responsible for what people see and what they hear.

Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you're born.

Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood.

The ocean of solutions is within, enliven that. It's a world of clues, a world of mystery but the mystery can get solved, you can find a lot of answers for these things within.

Everybody's got creativity. Dive within to the ocean of infinite creativity.

Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity.

I always say that intuition is the number one tool for an artist.

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

Angelo Badalamenti brought me into the world of music and that's really what gave me permission to get into it even though I'm not a musician. It's just an intuitive thing for me.

I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

I think true love is not only true personal love but totality of love, universal love - to be in love with everything manifest and everything unmanifest.

When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life.

I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's a couple, and I don't even know exactly why I don't like them.

Cigarettes are pretty much my worst vice, and I even stopped smoking for 20 years. I spend most of my free time with my family and working on art.