“My cow is not pretty, but it's pretty to me.”

— David Lynch

About his contribution to CowParade New York 2000, " Eat My Fear http://davidlynch.de/eatmyfear.html", which was pulled after 2 hours, quoted in The New Yorker, Volume 76, p. 62 https://books.google.com/books?id=3rYeAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22my+cow+is+not+pretty%22

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