David Lynch Quotes

Everybody's got creativity. You just get more of it [when you meditate].

What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.

I truly believe there is a field of peace within and that it can be enlivened and brought to the surface to be enjoyed by all.

The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.

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.

If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery.

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.

If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that's all you can control. You can't control any of what's out there, outside yourself.

I like things to be orderly.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

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.

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.

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

The ideas dictate everything.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day.

To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.

Been trying the soapy water and instant coffee method. Works somewhat, but boy it tastes terrible. I don't know how you guys can stand it. I'm going back to milk and espresso for my cappas.

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

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.

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.

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything.

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.

To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.

Achievement is its own reward

When you sleep, you don't control your dream. I like to dive into a dream world that I've made, a world I chose and that I have complete control over.

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.

Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school’s curriculum.

We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.

The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light.

As a teenager, I was really trying to have fun 24 hours a day. I didn't start thinking until I was 20 or 21. I was doing regular goof-ball stuff.

I just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to find those magical things. Then I don't care what else happens.

Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.

Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.

I know club music has to be infectious and it's got to make you move.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is.

I've seen so many cases where lives have been transformed for the good and heard so many stories about this. The technique of Transcendental Meditation really works for the human being.

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.