Quotes: David Lynch

"We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.

"If you go into a room where someone's been having a big argument, it's not so pleasant. You can feel it. Even if the argument's over, you can feel it. But if you go into a room where someone has just finished meditating, you can feel that bliss. It's very nice to feel that.

"We all affect our environments. You enjoy that light inside, and if you ramp it up brighter and brighter, you enjoy more and more of it. And that light will extend out farther and farther."

–– David Lynch (1946-2025), American filmmaker, visual artist, musician and actor

Source: David Lynch. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2006; p. 105. 

via: Commonplace Book 2013-2014, 2013, p. 40.

Quotes 276: Brenda Case Scheer

"Like the proliferation of economic poverty, aesthetic poverty affects us all. Our interaction with the impoverished environment of strip malls and burger joints coarsens us, limits our options, dismisses the subtleties of the natural world, and trains us to see nothing that is not loud, red, and obnoxious." 

–– Brenda Case Scheer (b. 1951), American urban designer, architect, and writer, from The Culture of Aesthetic Poverty (Titanium, 1999) 

via Sketchbook 4, 2008, p. 129