"Oh, a moving painting. But with sound."
I was painting a painting about four foot square. It was mostly black but it had some green plant and leaves coming out of the black. And I was sitting back, probably taking a smoke, looking at it and from the painting, I heard a wind and the green started moving. And I thought, 'Oh, a moving painting. But with sound.' And that idea stuck in my head, a moving painting.
David Lynch on discovering his calling at art school in Philadelphia in David Lynch - The Art Life (2016) currently streaming on HBOMax
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I have that film on DVD. Haven't seen it yet though.