David Lynch Quotes

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• The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
• This is a donut. It is very sweet, and very good. But if you've never tasted a donut, you wouldn't really know how sweet and…
• Every single person has within an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness. Every single human being can experience that - infinite intelligence, infinite creativity, infinite happiness,…
• Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it…
• Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall…
• Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.
• I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be…
• Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy
• Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
• True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within.
• When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home... and I mostly drew browning automatic…
• 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…
• My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America…
• Unfortunately, my ideas are not what you'd call commercial, and money really drives the boat these days. So I don't know what my future is.…
• Instead of instilling fear, if a company offered a way for everyone in the business to dive within-to start expanding energy and intelligence-people would work…
• What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
• Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
• Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.
• We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.
• 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…

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