Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition

by David Lynch

“If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time.”

This is me and design / focus time

And then you go to work. The idea just needs to be enough to get you started, because, for me, whatever follows is a process of action and reaction. It’s always a process of building and then destroying. And then, out of this destruction, discovering a thing and building on it. Nature plays a huge part in it. Putting difficult materials together—like baking something in sunlight, or using one material that fights another material—causes its own organic reaction. Then it’s a matter of sitting back and studying it and studying it and studying it; and suddenly, you find you’re leaping up out of your chair and going in and doing the next thing. That’s action and reaction.