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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost;
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“He atones for being occasionally somewhat overdressed by being always absolutely over-educated. He is a very modern type.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
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“Our inability to understand the sublime or cope with the absolute is also a hint of its undoing; magnificence, like magnanimity, stands always on a precipice, ready to crumble.”
― Baroque Visual Rhetoric
― Baroque Visual Rhetoric
“I wouldn't know what to do with (color). Color to me is too real. It's limiting. It doesn't allow too much of a dream. The more you throw black into a color, the more dreamy it gets.... Black has depth. It's like a little egress; you can go into it, and because it keeps on continuing to be dark, the mind kicks in, and a lot of things that are going on in there become manifest. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.”
― David Lynch: The Factory Photographs
― David Lynch: The Factory Photographs
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