Feel Quotes

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

David Lynch

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I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.

David Lynch

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

David Lynch

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Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.

David Lynch

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I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

David Lynch

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I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

David Lynch

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

David Lynch

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A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

David Lynch

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I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

David Lynch

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There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

David Lynch

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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.

David Lynch

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I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.

David Lynch

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Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

David Lynch

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Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.

David Lynch

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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.

David Lynch

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I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.

David Lynch

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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.

David Lynch

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Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.

David Lynch

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Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.

David Lynch

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It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

David Lynch

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Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.

David Lynch

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The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

David Lynch

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