David Lynch Quotes

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

The world is as you are.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.

I'm not comfortable with words. I love images ,and I love sounds, and I love feelings. I like the idea of intuition. I think a lot of things in life are understood that way. But you internalize these things; they don't really pop out. Certain things are built inside - little areas of understanding. I feel that I live in darkness and confusion, and I'm trying, like we all are, to make some sort of sense of it.

Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

There is this unbounded, infinite, eternal, level, ocean, within every human being. Inner happiness comes with consciousness, bliss, intelligence comes with it. Creativity, love. Human beings have a potential and it has names like enlightenment or fulfilment, or liberation. True happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. They say beauty is only skin deep but it's this stuff coming from the inside, absolute vibrant consciousness, absolute bliss

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to reconcile those opposing things. I've always liked both sides. In order to appreciate one you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.

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.

Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!

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.

The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.

Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.

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