David Lynch: "Intuition is knowing when something isn't right."

“Intuition is the number one tool,” David Lynch stated a few years ago in an interview with Susie Pearl, where he defined intuition as the knowledge that detects what doesn't fit and allows us to correct it. This approach, extracted from their 2021 conversation, now takes on a different dimension following his recent death at the age of 78, a death deeply felt by the many fans of his work.

Lynch's journey through the art world always revolved around that inner compass, which he distinguished from biological instinct, which he compared to hunger. He said he felt accompanied by "that silent wisdom," a presence that acts as an internal radar and which he embraced both in film and transcendental meditation.

“That space of total knowledge,” Lynch said, “is within reach of anyone willing to transcend rational thought and merge with an intuition that isn't learned, it's lived. “Knowing that by which everything is known,” the filmmaker repeated.

In that field, intuition was a “great friend” for him, a silent guide that oriented his creativity from cryptic films like Eraserhead or Mulholland Drive to his latest musical projects like Cellophane Memories (2024).

Now that Lynch is no longer with us, his legacy is marked by that fidelity to the inner voice, to creation as an intuitive and living experience. "Knowing and feeling at the same time," as he said, is an invitation to explore the invisible with our eyes wide open.

“Intuition is the number one tool,” David Lynch stated a few years ago in an interview with Susie Pearl, where he defined intuition as the knowledge that detects what doesn't fit and allows us to correct it. This approach, extracted from their 2021 conversation, now takes on a different dimension following his recent death at the age of 78, a death deeply felt by the many fans of his work.