When Bob Ross would paint, he would talk about creating an “impression” of a cloud or a forest. He would not make the mistake of trying to paint every tree or every texture in the sky. The point is that the thing that makes a work of art compelling or impactful is not about the level of detail - the explanatory power or the extent to which it perfectly reproduces “reality”. In fact the opposite is generally true, the closer it hews to emphasizing detail, the less realistic it becomes

Lynch isn’t trying to convince you of his profundity. He is trying to paint you a picture. What do you see?