The art life is a great life. It’s coffee and cigarettes, maybe some red wine. It’s catching ideas and translating them to one medium or another. In the world of painting, it’s getting deep into that world and just getting lost in there with paint and different things. And it’s just a dream to get in there and find things that you love. It’s always an experiment, and it just has to be a certain way. But getting there sometimes — it’s always thrilling. There’s so much happiness in it, but it doesn’t always happen in a smooth way. But it’s so great to be in it while you’re in it deep.
— David Lynch
Excerpt from David Lynch on His Life and Art, video interview, Artforum, September 18, 2019.