David Lynch Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.

  David Lynch

  Tree, Christmas Love, Painting

• 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

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, film.avclub.com. January 23, 2007.

• 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

• Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything.

  David Lynch

  Keys, Intuition, Joining Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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. Feeling correct is a feeling I think everyone knows.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, Feelings, Intellectual

  Source: film.avclub.com

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

  David Lynch

  Photography, Different, Cinema

• 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

  "The interview: David Lynch" by Gaby Wood and Hazel Sheffield, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.

• You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum.

  David Lynch

  Years, Ideas, Differences

• I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that?

  David Lynch

  Would Be, Tables, Painting

• A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

  David Lynch

  Hate, Thinking, Painting

• I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with my teeth.

  David Lynch

  Hurt, Teeth, Painting

• An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

  David Lynch

  Artist, Way, Bugs

  Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 10, 2006.

• My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Moving, Unique

• As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.

  David Lynch

  Father, Kids, House

  Interview With Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2012.

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