David Lynch Quotes

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation.

Everything is an experiment.

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.

All progress is experimental.

If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.

I think what's so great about making your first feature film is that you're so naive in some ways; you don't know what to expect, and you don't question things as much because you're just trying to figure it out as you go.

It is well that the beaten ways of the world get trodden into mud : we are thus forced to seek new paths and pick out new lines of life.