“ Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time. 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-bourgeo… 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
“ 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
“ 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
“ For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present. 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 w… Alejandro Jodorowsky
“ If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited. 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… 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
“ 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
“ 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 m… 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. W… 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
“ During a party, Luis Buñuel, seduced by Carrington’s beauty and emboldened by the notion that she had transcended all bourgeois morality, proposed (with his characteristic bluntness) that she become h… 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… Alejandro Jodorowsky
