David Lynch Quotes

I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

There is no secret orchard where ideas grow. Oh my, do I wish there were.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

I love creating. I love being with creative people who can think quickly on their feet.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.