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Streets of Philadelphia Bruce Springsteen, 1995 Grammy Awards

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tributes to david lynch left at bob's big boy in toluca lake, california

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DAVID LYNCH as Gordon Cole and MÄDCHEN AMICK as Shelly Johnson in TWIN PEAKS 2.19 "Variations on Relations"

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DAVID LYNCH 🕊️ as GORDON COLE Twin Peaks, 1990-1992

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twin peaks came to me at a very difficult time in my life (to date probably the most difficult time in my life) and to start the new year without david feels like walking down a dark road with no hand to hold

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TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN RIP David Lynch (1946-2025)

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Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business – everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.

David Lynch / 1946-2025

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This one hurts real bad. 😔

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People might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of, or because of, his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn't so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

—David Lynch

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Rest in peace, David Lynch 🤍🕊️ January 20th, 1946 - January 16th, 2025

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well this has broken me

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Sherilyn Fenn on David Lynch

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david lynch understood on a fundamental level how abusive and exploitative the world is to those with the least power, particularly women and children. he created an entire lifetime's worth of cinematically and narratively groundbreaking work trying to grapple with that hostility and abuse, trying to reconcile the evil that exists in the hearts of everyday men with the goodness he saw there as well. he made survivors of unspeakable trauma feel seen and known in a way that few artists ever have and ever will, and never once shied away from the truth he knew and believed: that we are all innocent, that what has been done to you is not who you are, and even in times of abject despair, there are people who love you, who will not forget you or stop trying to save or defend or avenge you. i don't want that to go without notice. many people are mourning him for different reasons, and i agree, he was one of the greatest and most imaginative artists to ever be given free reign to paint on a cinematic canvas. but first and foremost, david lynch was an artist of enormous empathy, and i think those of us who saw ourselves in his work because of the empathy it afforded us are grieving particularly hard today.

his memory will always be a blessing.

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David Lynch just passed. If everyone could spend the next few weeks becoming a little more offbeat, a little more in touch with the strangeness of our world, maybe we could begin to replace the massive void he leaves. We may not see another artist like him reach prominence within our lifetimes, so please go out and search, in the world and in yourself. Embody the truth, lead with love, hold the hands of those outstretched to you, and go as far as you can, no matter how deep and how dark, face it with love.

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“I learned that just beneath the surface there’s another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn’t find the proof. It was just a feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force - a wild pain and decay - also accompanies everything.”

— David Lynch

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“One day the sadness will end.

But I don’t think today’s the day.”

David Lynch