David Lynch quotes

David Lynch is a renowned filmmaker, artist, and musician. With a unique and enigmatic style, Lynch has created a niche in the entertainment industry. Best-known for his films like "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive," Lynch's work is characterized by its surreal and dark atmosphere. Born in 1946, the American artist has received numerous accolades, including three Academy Award nominations. Lynch's artistic sensibilities extend beyond cinema; he is also an accomplished painter and musician, releasing albums such as "Crazy Clown Time." Delve into the world of David Lynch and experience the bizarre beauty of his creations.

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

- David Lynch

Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole.

- David Lynch

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.

- David Lynch

You never know when ideas are going to hit you. You can get ideas just from sitting in a room daydreaming, just feeling the air. I think people are like radios. They pick up signals. But sometimes you go to a new place and that will give you ideas. Sometimes you go to a new place – no ideas. You never know what’s going to trigger the ideas you fall in love with.

- David Lynch

When you have a certain regimen, certain things you wear, you don’t have to worry, you just do it then it leaves more time to daydream and think. It’s to help the work.

- David Lynch

When you finish anything, people want you to then talk about it. And I think it’s almost like a crime. A film or a painting – each thing is its own sort of language and it’s not right to try to say the same thing in words. The words are not there. The language of film, cinema, is the language it was put into, and the English language – it’s not going to translate. It’s going to lose.

- David Lynch

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

- David Lynch

We have a treasury within. This is the biggest, the most beautiful home. It’s unbounded, infinite, eternal, immutable, immortal treasury, but we’ve lost contact. You’ve got the gold in the vault but if you don’t have the key to open up the door you’re not going to get that gold out. That vault can be seen as a home, a beautiful home, the self. The feeling of the home, money can’t buy that. It’s bliss. There’s a line, know thyself. This is the self they’re talking about.

- David Lynch

These days the world is filled with a lot of stress and people suffer from this stress and negativity. The practice of transcendental meditation starts rapidly folding the full potential of the human being – enlightenment. Doesn’t matter if you’re rich, poor, homeless, when you walk towards the light each step things get brighter. It’s so beautiful to see what happens to a person when they walk away from suffering. Even if they’re homeless they start feeling happy inside, regardless of the outside circumstance.

- David Lynch

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

- David Lynch

On the surface we’re all different, at the base we’re all the same.

- David Lynch

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

- David Lynch

I think, in a way, the chickens are coming home to roost for America. I don’t know what percentage are working towards making it better, but there’s a huge percentage that’s being diverted into escape, into sports or movies or music, into drugs. The drugs have ruined so much.

- David Lynch

I quit smoking in December. I’m really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss lighting cigarettes. I like the whole thing about it, to me it turns into the artist’s life, and now people like Bloomberg have made animals out of smokers, and they think that if they stop smoking everyone will live forever.

- David Lynch

I feel we’ve been in very dark times and much better times are coming. The thing is, bad news sells, frightening things sell, sensationalism sells. So we don’t hear all the good news that’s happening, because it seems kind of boring.

- David Lynch

I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.

- David Lynch

I don’t like to go out. I do go out, but I don’t like it. But many times I don’t want to go out and then I’m forced to go out and I enjoy myself when I’m out. Getting enough strength to walk out the door sometimes is tricky.

- David Lynch

I don’t like going out anyway. I like to stay at home. Of course I do think it’s important sometimes to go out and see new things and feel the so-called reality. And that can conjure ideas. But I think human beings can sense the air and feel what’s going on in the world without going out.

- David Lynch

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

- David Lynch

Everything I learned in my life, I learned because I decided to try something new.

- David Lynch

Even though I’ve never been a factory worker, for some reason I just love the idea of smokestacks, fire, the brick, the narrow streets, the whole factory life.

- David Lynch

Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.

- David Lynch

As you know if you ever fished, you have to have patience – some days you catch some, some days you don’t. I am fishing now, and I’m gathering fish together, but I haven’t started cooking them.

- David Lynch

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

- David Lynch

A homeless person doesn’t have a home. Because they don’t have a home they don’t have a shelter. Because they don’t have a shelter they’re a victim of the elements. Homeless people don’t get to bathe too often and they’re sunburnt a lot of times, they’re dirty because they don’t have a place to get cleaned up and they might start getting an odour. These are general, stereotypical things that you notice but all those things could be taken care of pretty quickly if they had some help.

- David Lynch

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

- David Lynch

I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!

- David Lynch

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

- David Lynch

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

- David Lynch

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.

- David Lynch