Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited.

I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. Bu...

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. W...

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do ...

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I do...

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

When the bullseye becomes as big as an elephant in your mind, you won’t be able to miss it.

When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with ...

The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. Wh...

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not com...

If you want to draw some advantage from your history, you must accept not only this miracle but also...

During these past years, not being able to speak with you, I dedicated myself to reviewing, within m...

This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little worl...

Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time.

Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and ...

For me they are no different, reality and dreams.

Although really society should not change, it should mutate. And, little by little, it is mutating.....

I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young p...

Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is...

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with differ...

You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.

Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends d...

Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.

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 di...