Editing David Lynch (section)

==Early life and education==
{{main|Early life of David Lynch}}
{{quote box|width=20em|quote=My childhood was elegant homes, tree-lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. [[Middle America (US)|Middle America]] as it's supposed to be. But on the cherry tree there's this pitch oozing out – some black, some yellow, and millions of [[red ants]] crawling all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are ''always'' red ants underneath. Because I grew up in a perfect world, other things were a contrast. |source=<ref name=lynch05/>{{rp|10–11}}}}

David Keith Lynch was born in [[Missoula, Montana]], on January 20, 1946.<ref name="lynch05">{{Cite book |last1=Lynch |first1=David |title=Lynch on Lynch |last2=Rodley |first2=Chris |publisher=Faber and Faber |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-571-22018-2 |edition=revised |location=New York}}</ref>{{rp|1}} The first film he saw was [[Henry King (director)|Henry King]]'s ''[[Wait till the Sun Shines, Nellie (film)|Wait till the Sun Shines, Nellie]]'' (1952).<ref name="Hoberman">{{Cite news |last=Hoberman |first=J. |author-link=J. Hoberman |date=January 16, 2025 |title=David Lynch Dead: 'Twin Peaks' and 'Mulholland Drive' Director Was 78 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/movies/david-lynch-dead.html |access-date=January 16, 2025 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> His father, Donald Walton Lynch (1915–2007), was a research scientist working for the [[U.S. Department of Agriculture]] (USDA), and his mother, Edwina "Sunny" Lynch (née Sundholm; 1919–2004), was an English-language tutor. Two of Lynch's maternal great-grandparents were [[Swedish-speaking population of Finland|Finnish-Swedish]] immigrants who arrived in the U.S. during the 19th century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ng.se/artiklar/david-lynch-%E2%80%9Dden-haer-vaerlden-aer-full-av-hat-och-angest%E2%80%9D|title=David Lynch: "Den här världen är full av hat och ångest"|website=NÖJESGUIDEN|access-date=June 20, 2020|archive-date=June 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623034616/https://ng.se/artiklar/david-lynch-%E2%80%9Dden-haer-vaerlden-aer-full-av-hat-och-angest%E2%80%9D|url-status=live}}</ref> He recalled that his father "would drive me through the woods in his green Forest Service truck, over dirt roads, through the most beautiful forests where the trees are very tall and shafts of sunlight come down and in the mountain streams the rainbow trout leap out and their little trout sides catch glimpses of light. Then my father would drop me in the woods and go off. It was a weird, comforting feeling being in the woods."<ref name=Corliss>{{cite magazine| last=Corliss| first=Richard| author-link=Richard Corliss| title=David Lynch: Czar of the Bizarre| date=October 1, 1990| magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]| url=https://time.com/archive/6716008/david-lynch-czar-of-bizarre/}}</ref> He was raised as a [[Presbyterian]].<ref name="Williams">{{cite news|author=Williams, Alex| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/fashion/31lynch.html|title=David Lynch's Shockingly Peaceful Inner Life| work=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 31, 2007|access-date=November 29, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Sadighian">{{cite news|author=Sadighian, David|url=http://www.globalgoodnews.com/education-news-a.html?art=1128100751793764|title=David Lynch thinks we're all lightbulbs. What?|newspaper=[[Yale Daily News]]| date=October 1, 2005|access-date=November 29, 2010|archive-date=July 24, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724122946/http://www.globalgoodnews.com/education-news-a.html?art=1128100751793764|url-status=live}}</ref> The Lynch family often moved around according to where the USDA assigned Donald: Lynch moved with his parents to [[Sandpoint, Idaho]], when he was two months old; two years later, after his brother John was born, the family moved to [[Spokane, Washington]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-17 |title=What 'Twin Peaks' creator David Lynch meant to WA |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/twin-peaks-creator-david-lynchs-legacy-in-wa/ |access-date=2025-05-08 |website=The Seattle Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-16 |title=Visionary filmmaker behind 'Twin Peaks' and 'Eraserhead' David Lynch, who partly grew up in Spokane, dies at 78 |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/jan/16/visionary-filmmaker-behind-twin-peaks-and-eraserhe/ |access-date=2025-05-08 |website=Spokesman.com |language=en}}</ref> Lynch's sister Martha was born there. The family then moved to [[Durham, North Carolina]], [[Boise, Idaho]], and [[Alexandria, Virginia]].<ref name=lynch05/>{{rp|1}} Lynch adjusted to this transitory early life with relative ease, noting that he usually had no difficulty making new friends when he attended a new school.<ref name=lynch05/>{{rp|2–3}} Of his early life, he remarked:

{{blockquote|I found the world completely and totally fantastic as a child. Of course, I had the usual fears, like going to school&nbsp;... for me, back then, school was a crime against young people. It destroyed the seeds of liberty. The teachers didn't encourage knowledge or a positive attitude.<ref name=lynch05/>{{rp|14}}}}

[[File:David Lynch (1964 yearbook portrait).jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|alt=1964 high school senior photo portrait of Lynch in a suit|Lynch's high school senior portrait, 1964]]
Alongside his schooling, Lynch joined the [[Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scouts]]. Later, he said he "became [a Scout] so I could quit and put it behind me", and rose to the highest rank of [[Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America)|Eagle Scout]]. Lynch befriended Toby Keeler, whose father, Bushnell, was a painter. Bushnell gave Lynch ''The Art Spirit'' by [[Robert Henri]]. It was a revelation, and Lynch decided to dedicate himself to "the art life".<ref name=Lim>{{cite book| last=Lim| first=Dennis| title=David Lynch: The Man From Another Place| date=2015}}</ref>{{rp|1}}

At [[Francis C. Hammond High School]] in Alexandria, Lynch did not excel academically, having little interest in schoolwork, but he was popular with other students, and after leaving he decided that he wanted to study painting at college. He began his studies at the [[Corcoran School of the Arts and Design]] in Washington, D.C., before transferring in 1964 to the [[School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]] with roommate musician [[Peter Wolf]].<ref name=Thomson>{{cite book| last=Thomson| first=David| author-link=David Thomson (film critic)| title=[[The New Biographical Dictionary of Film]]| page=606}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://corcoran.gwu.edu/notable-alumni|title=Notable Alumni &#124; Corcoran School of the Arts & Design &#124; The George Washington University|website=corcoran.gwu.edu|access-date=April 22, 2019|archive-date=August 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804074116/https://corcoran.gwu.edu/notable-alumni|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Peter'sBio|url=http://www.peterwolf.com/bio/index2.html|work=Peter Wolf|access-date=August 16, 2012|author=Wolf, Peter|year=2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615152715/http://www.peterwolf.com/bio/index2.html|archive-date=June 15, 2012}}</ref> He left after only a year, saying, "I was not inspired at all in that place." He instead decided that he wanted to travel around Europe for three years with his friend [[Jack Fisk]], who was similarly unhappy with his studies at [[Cooper Union]]. They had some hopes that they could train in Europe with Austrian [[Expressionism|expressionist]] painter [[Oskar Kokoschka]] at his school. Upon reaching [[Salzburg]], however, they found that Kokoschka was not available. Disillusioned, they returned to the United States after spending only two weeks in Europe.<ref name=lynch05/>{{rp|31–34}}