Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school’s curriculum. David Lynch More Quotes by David Lynch More Quotes From David Lynch 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 creative goal Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions. David Lynch intuition ocean knowing Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all. David Lynch screens forget remember The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day. David Lynch falling-in-love beautiful ideas I like the saying: "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the frames of a film are always the same - the same number, in the same sequence, with the same sounds - every screening is different. The difference is sometimes subtle but it's there. It depends on the audience. There is a circle that goes from the audience to the film and back. Each person is looking and thinking and feeling and coming up with his or her own sense of things. And it's probably different from what I fell in love with. David Lynch circles differences thinking Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen... I love the process of going into mystery. David Lynch mystery secret beautiful 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 life-and-death artist suffering 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 sound art school Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual. David Lynch film sound sometimes Everybody's got creativity. You just get more of it [when you meditate]. David Lynch 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 wall struggle running Man is evolving...but it's difficult to see his progress with a Western perception of time. The Hindus think of time in much larger segments. They watch the hour hand of the clock while we in the West are preoccupied with the second hand. David Lynch men hands thinking It's important that a film is loud and I hope many people agree. You should be inside of a film when you go into a theater. It should surround you, envelope you, so you can live inside a dream. David Lynch important dream people 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 surface fields believe A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene. David Lynch filmmaker scene suffering The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you. David Lynch big-fish meditation practice During the course of a day, some dark feeling comes, maybe some sadness comes, some thrill, some great happiness, some strange humor. Cinema can embrace all that in one story, just as the story of life. David Lynch sadness dark feelings 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 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 waste men people 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 creativity ocean fun
