Quoting David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, 10th Anniversary edition, 2006

Right here 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 his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

— David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, 10th Anniversary edition, 2006 (via)

2:24pm on January 19, 2025 from Vancouver, Canada.


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