David Lynch famous quotes

You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.
-- David Lynch

#Mean #Dark #Light

The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It's a creativity that creates everything that is a thing - it's mighty powerful creativity.
-- David Lynch

#Powerful #Ocean #Creativity

I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.
-- David Lynch

#Creativity #Meditation #Energy

The more you meditate the better life gets.
-- David Lynch

#Better Life

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

#Beautiful #Creativity #Way

I've seen so many cases where lives have been transformed for the good and heard so many stories about this. The technique of Transcendental Meditation really works for the human being.
-- David Lynch

#Meditation #Technique #Stories

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

#Rocks #Suffering #Bliss

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.
-- David Lynch

#Cures #Surface #Torment

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

#Thinking #Imagination #Adults

Consciousness-based education, which I am helping to promote, is basically the same education that good schools are giving today with Transcendental Meditation added for the students, teachers, staff, and principal.
-- David Lynch

#Teacher #School #Giving

Absurdity is what I like most in life.
-- David Lynch

#Absurdity

In the world there's a thing called collective consciousness. All of us billions of human beings together create that collective consciousness. With all the problems in our world, you can see that the collective consciousness is not so high.
-- David Lynch

#Our World #Together #Problem

Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the world. You're strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.
-- David Lynch

#Selfish #Meditation #World

If a human being is filled with happiness and positivity, this is what they radiate out into the world. We each affect our environment and that collective consciousness. The more people who are diving within and transcending and are getting that happiness and positivity, the better the world will be.
-- David Lynch

#Positivity #People #World

Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now we say the artist doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand the human condition, understand the suffering.
-- David Lynch

#Artist #Life And Death #Suffering

Domestic violence and violence against women in general seems to be a big problem everywhere in the world. It seems to me this problem comes from stress, pent up anger, frustration, and all kinds of negativity within human beings.
-- David Lynch

#Stress #Frustration #Negativity

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.
-- David Lynch

#Beautiful #Powerful #Ideas

As collective consciousness goes higher and higher, all the differences in the world will be appreciated more and more. A definition of peace is unity in the midst of diversity. Or you could say happiness, love, and peace in the midst of all diversity. All the differences would be appreciated fully in the light of this peace.
-- David Lynch

#Differences #Light #Diversity

We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.
-- David Lynch

#Our World #Goal #Creative

Transcending gives a human being a chance to think before acting. And experiencing this beautiful treasury within gets rid of torment and replaces it with happiness, inner peace, creativity intelligence, love, energy. This fuels a real good life and fuels an appreciation for all human beings. It's so powerful and it's a blessing for humanity.
-- David Lynch

#Beautiful #Appreciation #Good Life

Many things happen that we don't know the significance of until a little bit later.
-- David Lynch

#Littles #Significance #Things Happen

Negativity is the enemy of creativity. For instance if you're filled with depression, you can hardly even get out of bed, let alone feel like creating something. If you are filled with bitter, selfish anger, this occupies the mind and leaves little room for creative ideas.
-- David Lynch

#Selfish #Creativity #Creating

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

#Inspiration #Giants #Pieces

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

#Real #Interesting #Comedy

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 overtime for free. They would be far more creative. And the company would just leap forward. This is the way it can be. It's not the way it is, but it could be that way so easily.
-- David Lynch

#Fear #People #Creative

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

#Intuition #Tails #Way

Transcendental Meditation is not a religion, it's not against any religion, it's for human beings, no matter what color, what religion, what walk of life. If you're a human being, it will work for you. And you will be very glad you found this technique and took advantage of it.
-- David Lynch

#Color #Meditation #Technique

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

#Way #Remember #Remembered

All we really need is this technique of Transcendental Meditation, which allows any human being to easily and effortlessly transcend. When you get this technique of Transcendental Meditation, stay regular in your meditation twice a day and you will begin to rapidly unfold your full potential as a human being and see life get better and better and better.
-- David Lynch

#Meditation #Get Better #Technique

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

#Movie #Inspiring #Heart

I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on the surface, not so deep. Beneath it was hollow. Up until that time, I had been thinking meditation was a joke, a fad and a waste of time.
-- David Lynch

#Thinking #Meditation #World

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
-- David Lynch

#Creativity #Negativity #Enemy

I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit of melancholy. I had a lot of anger for my situations in life, and I would take this out on my first wife.
-- David Lynch

#Self #Wife #Creative

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

#Past #Two #Fire

Every human being has consciousness, but not every human being has the same amount. The potential for each one of us human beings is infinite consciousness. This is called supreme enlightenment, and it just needs unfolding by transcending each day. The more consciousness we have, the better life is.
-- David Lynch

#Enlightenment #Needs #Each Day

I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn.
-- David Lynch

#Real #Worry #Directors

I just love musicians. They're not all super-happy all the time, but when they're playing they're happy, and it's such a beautiful thing.
-- David Lynch

#Beautiful #Musician #Super Happy

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

#Stories #Abstract #Said

It's crazy to close doors to any genres.
-- David Lynch

#Crazy #Doors #Genre

You don't dive for specific solutions; you dive to enliven that ocean of consciousness. Then your intuition grows and you have a way of solving those problems-knowing when it's not quite right and knowing a way to make it feel correct for you. That capacity grows and things go much more smoothly.
-- David Lynch

#Ocean #Knowing #Intuition

A lot of musicians like to do the bass and the drums with analog and get that tape distortion that's really beautiful. As far as the digital world goes - it's all going to end up there anyway, but when you hear vinyl it does a different thing to you. Nowadays, people do CDs and then vinyl so it's everything goes; it's a such a beautiful world.
-- David Lynch

#Beautiful #Cds #People

Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy
-- David Lynch

#Crazy #Ideas #Sound

I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.
-- David Lynch

#Crazy #Rocks #Rock And Roll

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
-- David Lynch

#Lying #Ocean #Creativity

I don't think anybody really loves the sound of their own voice, but the tweakability is huge.
-- David Lynch

#Thinking #Voice #Sound

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.
-- David Lynch

#Photography #Ideas #Together

It's important to listen to lots of different genres because you never know when something will get born out of it.
-- David Lynch

#Important #Different #Born

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

#Pain #Creativity #Thinking

I know club music has to be infectious and it's got to make you move.
-- David Lynch

#Moving #Clubs

There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.
-- David Lynch

#Coffee #Dark #Thinking

The world is as you are.
-- David Lynch

#Law Of Attraction #World #Attraction

The artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. Have it on the screen but have the people come out of the theater into a world of peace, of a beautiful world. They don't have to suffer in their lives.
-- David Lynch

#Beautiful #Artist #People

I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something, like 'cut' or 'bruise,' people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don't know what it is, it can be very beautiful.
-- David Lynch

#Beautiful #Hate #Mistake

Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, at the border of intellect, you transcend and experience it.
-- David Lynch

#Meditation #Mind #Technique

I love seeing people come out of darkness.
-- David Lynch

#People #Darkness

The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light.
-- David Lynch

#Light #Negativity #Darkness

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 keep happening.
-- David Lynch

#Mean #Might

Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a field of infinite, unbounded peace within every human being, and when you experience it, you enliven that peace.
-- David Lynch

#Beautiful #Get Better #Fields

Achievement is its own reward
-- David Lynch

#Success #Achievement #Rewards

The interesting thing that happens for many people when they first start meditating is that they'll be doing it for a few months, and they will begin to change, but the experience is so subtle that they're not even aware of it.
-- David Lynch

#People #Interesting #Months

To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.
-- David Lynch

#Ideas #Different #Finals

You could say that spirituality is bliss, and bliss is physical happiness, emotional happiness, mental happiness, and spiritual happiness. And it's intense. It's an intense happiness. It brings you together with everything.
-- David Lynch

#Spiritual #Emotional #Together

You don't need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.
-- David Lynch

#Special #Needs #World

Angelo Badalamenti brought me into the world of music and that's really what gave me permission to get into it even though I'm not a musician. It's just an intuitive thing for me.
-- David Lynch

#Musician #World #Permission

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

#Artist #Animal #Thinking

If the people in a relationship were able to get rid of this torment within and replace it with happiness, love, and a sense of well-being, they would never think to hurt another human being. They would be filled with an understanding of others and an appreciation of others and have an ability to reconcile differences without any violence whatsoever, to reconcile differences in a very loving way, a very happy way.
-- David Lynch

#Appreciation #Hurt #Thinking

I like things to be orderly.
-- David Lynch

The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is what that human being radiates out into the world.
-- David Lynch

#Light #Negativity #Stressed

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
-- David Lynch

#Reality #Ideas #Being True

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

#Beautiful #Ants #Looks

I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.
-- David Lynch

#Thinking #Land #Ideas

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
-- David Lynch

#Absurdity

Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
-- David Lynch

#Ideas #Numbers #Mystery

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

#Mean #Different #Uncomfortable

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
-- David Lynch

#Life Is #Film #Complicated

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.
-- David Lynch

#Coffee #Cups #Cappuccino

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.
-- David Lynch

#Falling In Love #Ideas #Cinema

I truly believe there is a field of peace within and that it can be enlivened and brought to the surface to be enjoyed by all.
-- David Lynch

#Believe #Fields #Surface

The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
-- David Lynch

#Meditation

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

#Photography #Different #Cinema

Every single person has within an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness. Every single human being can experience that - infinite intelligence, infinite creativity, infinite happiness, infinite energy, infinite dynamic peace.
-- David Lynch

#Fun #Ocean #Creativity

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 until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
-- David Lynch

#Running #Wall #Struggle

I love industry. Pipes. I love fluid and smoke. I love man-made things. I like to see people hard at work, and I like to see sludge and man-made waste.
-- David Lynch

#Men #People #Waste

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. I don't have a clue what I'm going to be able to do in the world of cinema.
-- David Lynch

#Ideas #Cinema #World

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

#Creativity #Thinking #Keys

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.
-- David Lynch

#Song #Ideas #Blue

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
-- David Lynch

#Sound #Sometimes #Film

Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.
-- David Lynch

#Talking #Age #Body

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

#Talking #Actors #Moments

Everyone's got consciousness.. . Grow that ball of consciousness and all avenues of life improve. Your work just blossoms.
-- David Lynch

#Balls #Consciousness #Grows

I have been 'diving within' through the Transcendental Meditation technique for over 30 years. It has changed my life, my world. I am not alone. Millions of other people of all ages, religions, and walks of life practice the technique and enjoy incredible benefits.
-- David Lynch

#Years #Practice #People

There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
-- David Lynch

#Ocean #Creativity #Humans

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 as it’s supposed to be. But on the cherry tree there’s this pitch oozing out – some black, some yellow – and millions of red ants crawling all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
-- David Lynch

#Beautiful #Home #Airplane

All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.
-- David Lynch

#Important #World #Strange

Everybody's got creativity. You just get more of it [when you meditate].
-- David Lynch

#Creativity

I just like going into strange worlds.
-- David Lynch

#World #Strange

I just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness somewhere.
-- David Lynch

#Thinking #Wind #Ideas

When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life.
-- David Lynch

#Keys #Practice #Meditation

I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
-- David Lynch

#World #Film #Lost

Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola and Ernst Lubitsch. In art school, I studied painters like Edward Hopper, who used urban motifs, Franz Kafka is my favorite novelist. My approach to film stems from my art background, as I go beyond the story to the sub-conscious mood created by sound and images.
-- David Lynch

#Art #School #Sound