David Lynch on Where Great Ideas Come From

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  • čas přidán 2. 11. 2017
  • In 2008, The Atlantic sat down with the filmmaker David Lynch as he mused about inspiration and how to capture the flow of creativity. Now, we’ve animated his words of advice. “A lot of artists think that suffering is necessary,” he says. “But in reality, any kind of suffering cramps the flow of creativity.”
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Komentáře • 49

  • @tristanrow4951
    @tristanrow4951 Před 3 lety +133

    I kind of can't overstate how accurately Lynch describes the flow of creativity here

    • @kagarii
      @kagarii Před rokem +1

      @Phil “PM” Modesto no this is accurate. think about getting an idea for a story or something, its only a scene not the whole thing but that one scene overtime blossoms and becomes your full story. Thats how it feels for me anyway

    • @jdnm797
      @jdnm797 Před rokem +1

      Agreed. I love his thoughts about parts of a movie being puzzle pieces which are really abstract, then as more ideas come it starts forming a 'thing'. That's a really smart way of describing creativity. It has to be worked on and developed, yet keep it true to its essence to build it in to something tangible and worthwhile. It really is a journey of discovery.

    • @alvinhaglund5811
      @alvinhaglund5811 Před 6 měsíci

      "I kind of cant of overstate how" ... what a gay way of starting a statement. what lynch here describes is pretty much basic knowledge (and he's right, of course), but the weird cartoon movie going along with it tries to make it appear more original than it is. a similar example is the youtube video "this is water" that superimposes a david wallace reading with wannabe meaningful images

  • @emperorjoop
    @emperorjoop Před 6 lety +46

    That Twin Peaks animation @ 1:01 was awesome.

  • @clarathordiss3663
    @clarathordiss3663 Před 10 měsíci +10

    Everyone has ideas. Creatives are the people who have the skill and the capacity for hard work to turn those ideas into works of art - films, books, paintings, plays.

    • @MightyEFX
      @MightyEFX Před 4 měsíci +1

      not entirely true, i know some people who are utterly creatively bankrupt which i blame to be because of their lifestyle

    • @CielBlanche
      @CielBlanche Před 3 měsíci +2

      lots of people have bad ideas

  • @MrYulienskate
    @MrYulienskate Před 2 lety +25

    "Let's say that Van Gogh, everytime he went out to paint he got diarrhea"
    lmao

  • @normanoro206
    @normanoro206 Před 6 lety +75

    Although I've never been a filmmaker and I don't foresee ever becoming one, I think David Lynch's work is pretty amazing. I've self-published some science-fiction stories as a hobby; and though people probably vary, my experiences do largely jibe with what he says.

  • @farzanamughal5933
    @farzanamughal5933 Před 2 lety +12

    They did the corporate art thing on Lynch

    • @Ari-ww3fv
      @Ari-ww3fv Před 2 lety +2

      I actually appreciated it because it visualized the abstract things Lynch was saying. Maybe I’m just an idiot lol.

    • @farzanamughal5933
      @farzanamughal5933 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Ari-ww3fv Yeah I just found it funny bc I associate that art style with something that is the opposite of Lynch

  • @IdiotForLove
    @IdiotForLove Před rokem +4

    The animation on this is just brilliant

  • @DanielThePoet22
    @DanielThePoet22 Před 3 lety +7

    David Lynch is the man we need for our madness world

  • @MM-bw1lo
    @MM-bw1lo Před 2 lety +7

    Wow, what a great approach to creativity, love the illustrations, made the message come to life

  • @kirigrant3439
    @kirigrant3439 Před 3 lety +16

    The legend. The description of how creativity is formed is perfectly put.

    • @jdnm797
      @jdnm797 Před rokem

      @@philpmmodesto He made total sense. Who said creativity should be 'fun and easy'? I don't think you understand what creativity is in this context.

    • @Yuckod
      @Yuckod Před 11 měsíci

      @@philpmmodesto What makes you think that one can't feel through abstraction? In a way, our own thoughts and feelings are their own abstractions, humans just apply their own understanding of what they feel/see in each moment. Like how some people associate anger with the color red. The color red has no intrinsic meaning, it's just the result of light refracting off of cones in our head. It's the context of life and humanity that applies meaning to everything. Also, addressing your statement, "It's like saying I am going to make you laugh by making you feel sad", let me ask you this: what determines something to be funny in the first place? Is it because something is intrinsically funny or is it because somebody finds their own humor in something?

    • @Yuckod
      @Yuckod Před 11 měsíci

      @@philpmmodesto what the fuck are you talking about

  • @Space_Writer
    @Space_Writer Před rokem +1

    "you don't make the fish, you catch the fish." I like that. I'd say that it feels like my head is a fishbowl, full of ideas and stories but its more like a giant lake. Only I don't have a fishing pole, a net, or even a sharply pointed stick...only my hands.
    By the way, the imagery for this piece brilliant.

  • @scazab6408
    @scazab6408 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Extremely accurate, I have a folder with ideas that I write ever since I was like 13 lol

  • @NadavMerom
    @NadavMerom Před 6 lety +17

    Very nice animation!

  • @aaronwimberleymbamsf5776
    @aaronwimberleymbamsf5776 Před 3 lety +1

    Classic & timeless=]

  • @darshanpatil7777
    @darshanpatil7777 Před 2 lety +2

    Suffering cramps the flow of creativity ✔️

  • @TrippingTheTube
    @TrippingTheTube Před 2 lety

    Love this.

  • @themanhimself5650
    @themanhimself5650 Před 11 měsíci +1

    love this

  • @MightyEFX
    @MightyEFX Před 4 měsíci

    i love david lynch

  • @blueabattoir
    @blueabattoir Před 10 měsíci

    Always, always carry something to write down your ideas, or carry a recording device to make notes. Any artist can tell you how ideas can disappear in a moment. Never fool yourself that you will simply remember the ideas.

  • @sambarker6312
    @sambarker6312 Před 2 lety +1

    Love it

  • @mikeydashank3897
    @mikeydashank3897 Před 2 lety +29

    I think he may be right that there are no original ideas, we just catch the ones that already exist. sometimes I come up with something really creative when I'm drawing or playing piano, and I think to myself "there's no way somebody else hasn't thought of this before, I just may be the first to actually put it into reality"

  • @tgchan
    @tgchan Před 10 měsíci

    What a beautiful video/ Amazing job/

  • @ellisparrish5002
    @ellisparrish5002 Před 2 lety

    God loves David Lynch. ✌🏻❤️🙏🏻

  • @bodomiller4275
    @bodomiller4275 Před 6 lety +1

    Very nice video

  • @randomone4832
    @randomone4832 Před 5 měsíci

    Yes, ideas are important, but what you do with them is even moreso.

  • @tejvirmann
    @tejvirmann Před rokem

    took my metaphor

  • @simonabbott
    @simonabbott Před 3 lety +3

    trillions and zillions of ideas!

    • @andygtmo
      @andygtmo Před 2 lety

      Massive, massive quantities!

  • @zeepickens9049
    @zeepickens9049 Před 2 lety +2

    💝

  • @ericheine2414
    @ericheine2414 Před 2 lety

    Sometimes I have a catch-and-release program. I catch an idea and then I let it go. I returned it to the circle of life.

  • @Leksy728
    @Leksy728 Před rokem

    💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

  • @Qliphirot
    @Qliphirot Před rokem

    Alan Moore has a very similar concept and he calls it "idea-space". They're both influenced by Plato.

  • @buranopeach5245
    @buranopeach5245 Před 2 lety

    Van gogh would have to be crazy!
    He was!!!

  • @u-tubeeditor6696
    @u-tubeeditor6696 Před 4 lety +5

    ...the worst problem with the universe, is the inability to stop laughing at how close together [war & peace] are in logic...next thing we know, all we see is an elderly person looking like a child, swimming in fire...”totally a peace with the world, yah...right...”