Painting Quotes by David Lynch

“If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time.”

— David Lynch

I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon…

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like…

— David Lynch

I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and…

— David Lynch

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

— David Lynch

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's…

— David Lynch

You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that.…

— David Lynch

I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and…

— David Lynch

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if…

— David Lynch

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I…

— David Lynch

I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil…

— David Lynch

My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like…

— David Lynch

As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we…

— David Lynch

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if…

— David Lynch

Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock,…

— David Lynch

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an…

— David Lynch

I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's…

— David Lynch