David Lynch

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born

January 20, 1946 in Missoula, Montana, The United States

website

http://www.davidlynch.com/

genre

Arts & Photography, Entertainment, Mystery & Thrillers

influences

Francis Bacon, Alfred Hitchcock, Rene Magritte, Luis Bunel, Alejandro...more

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Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married, and fathered future director Jennifer Chambers Lynch shortly after he turned 21. That experience, plus attending art school in a particularly violent and run-down area of Philadelphia, inspired ERASERHEAD(1977), a film that he began in the early 1970s (after a couple of shorts) and which he would work on obsessively for five years. The final film was initially judged to be almost unreleasable, but thanks to the efforts of distributor Ben Barenholtz, it secured a cult following and enabled...more

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Books by David Lynch

Average rating: 3.88 · 2,533 ratings · 319 reviews · 48 distinct works

	Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity 3.66 avg rating — 1,493 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Lynch on Lynch by David Lynch, Chris Rodley 4.23 avg rating — 590 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Lost Highway by David Lynch, Barry Gifford 3.95 avg rating — 151 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Images Images 4.28 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Air is on Fire 4.24 avg rating — 54 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	In acque profonde. Meditazione e creatività 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Snowmen 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	David Lynch: Dark Splendor by David Lynch (Photographer), Peter-Klaus Schuster, Dietmar Dath 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Twin Peaks: An Access Guide to the Town by Pocket Books, Mark Frost (Goodreads Author), Richard Saul Wurman 3.49 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	David Lynch por David Lynch 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1998	My rating:

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Quotes by David Lynch

“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

tags: art

87 people liked it

“I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something, like 'cut' or 'bruise,' people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don't know what it is, it can be very beautiful.”
― David Lynch

tags: beauty , ugliness

37 people liked it

“My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.”
― David Lynch

tags: moo

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