David Lynch Quotes

I don't expect everyone to get something deep out of it. Some people can just listen to the music, or get their aggressions out, but I think with any great painting or movie, album or whatever it is, it's better if people can take what they need from it. That they're not forced to get some particular message.

The beauty of any artwork is that it becomes the person that's watching it: What do you take out of it?

My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in the people that misinterpret them. You know what you do, but someone else sees it, and they want to talk about it or write about it, and so they misinterpret them.

When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.

People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.

I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.

Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes, so that it's really left open for a lot of things, even though I remember a specific impression of something I had at the time. I can't say a song is about this or that; in fact, I wouldn't even want to. I just prefer to have people live it anyway they want. Because it's theirs after that. There's nothing I can do about it anymore

Opinions can't be inaccurate.

You can either just have fun with the joke or you can have fun with the joke and think about the implication of it. It's totally up to the listener.

What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.

I have intentions as a writer, but people - when they're listening to a track - will take from it what they interpret.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

To an extent, our relationship with the movies is always subjective. Our capacity to be involved says as much about each of us; I've never fathomed why anyone would want to spend four hours in the company of the exceedingly tiresome Scarlett O'Hara.

Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.

The play is not in the words, it's in you!

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about.

You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.

Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.

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.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.

As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

All experience is subjective.