DAVID LYNCH QUOTES

“I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.”

“The darkness that surrounds us cannot hurt us. It is the darkness in your own heart you should fear.”

“I’m a firm believer that happiness is the enemy. It lulls you into a sense of comfort and complacency.”

“I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you’re young.”

“There’s a thing where you have to find your own personal truth and be true to that. That’s the way I work.”

“I believe that the world itself is an art piece, and we’re all collaborating with it.”

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

“You don’t have to know a thing about nature to love it.”

“I like to remember things my own way. Not necessarily the way they happened.”

“Anger and pain are always connected. Pain is the root of all anger.”

“The thing about meditation is: You become more and more you.”

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

“I’m always in search of the ultimate thing.” CONFIDENT MOM QUOTES

“Negativity is the enemy of creativity.”

“I learned that just beneath the surface there’s another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper.”

“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.”

“A film is a dream world. People love to get lost in a dream world.”

“Where ideas come from is a mystery, and it will remain a mystery forever.”

“The more you do, the more you do.”

“The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.”

“I never understand when people say, ‘I don’t want to impose.’ I mean, what are you doing in this world?”

“I don’t always know what I’m doing, but I sure know what I don’t want to do.”

“Even in darkness there is beauty.”

“I don’t really know why I do anything.”