Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky

"I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul."
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"I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"For me they are no different, reality and dreams."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambition? Why? Have the greatest ambition possible. You want to be immortal? Fight to be immortal. Do it. You want to make the most fantastic art or movie? Try. If you fail, is not important. We need to try."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"I am a victim. To be an artist is to be a victim, because if you don't do what you want to do you die. That is the reality."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"When the bullseye becomes as big as an elephant in your mind, you won’t be able to miss it."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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