Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky Famous Quotes & Sayings
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My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.
I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.
It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.
In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.
Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.
Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.
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.
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.
Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.
All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.
I hated Peter O'Toole. I wanted to kill that guy! When they said he was dead, I was happy. People said, 'Poor Peter O'Toole.' I was happy!
Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.
Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines
I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating,
When I'm tired, I see industrial pictures. But I'll see one every two months. If I see one every day, I'll become an idiot.
Have a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it!
My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think.
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.
I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle.
We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.
I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.
This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little world to open up the universe.
Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.
Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to lose money. Really! I want to lose money.
I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.
All my life, I have never found a person who really loved this world. Every person hates the world, how he is.