Top 100 Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes
#1. I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.
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#3. The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.
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#4. When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
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#5. You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.
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#6. My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put perfume here on the insides of my soles, I paint my left testicle red, and I write.
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#8. For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.
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#10. 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.
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#16. One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.
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#17. In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.
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#19. French Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin would never have become Gauguin if he had not followed this principle. He was a bank employee for a good part of his life, until the day he decided he was an artist. That day he left the bank and became a genius painter.
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#22. Humanity are not individuals; we are collective. And if we have difference, we have wars all the time. We have crisis. We need to open our mind. This is the only solution we have.
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#23. Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.
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#25. Society feeds terror and is in turn terrorized; we are afraid to lose, so we consume.
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#26. When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot.
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#27. I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.
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#28. A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.
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#29. I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.
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#30. 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.
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#32. Oh, Buenos Aires, I have traveled around the world, but I've never been separated from you," said Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges. And Saint Thomas said, "A friendship that can end has never been a true friendship." In
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#33. I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.
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#34. When the bullseye becomes as big as an elephant in your mind, you won't be able to miss it.
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#35. 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.
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#36. I am not like Hitchcock, directing the reaction of the public or the audience. I don't like that. I think this is some kind of fascism - 'You need to react like that.' No. No. It's not like this; everyone needs to react as he can.
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#37. My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.
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#38. My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.
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#40. I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.
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#41. 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.
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#44. 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!
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#46. 'Santa Sangre' is the picture I love the best, myself, because 'El Topo' and 'The Holy Mountain' I made with my head, and 'Santa Sangre' I made with my feelings, with my heart. It's an emotional picture. And it's more real for me, that picture.
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#48. The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.
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#49. 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.
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#51. I never wanted to study art. And I don't think you need to study art if you are an artist. It's even dangerous to go to school. You need to do whatever you want, as you want.
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#52. When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it.
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#53. Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.
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#57. Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.
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#58. Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.
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#60. I wanted to be loved by my father. I could do anything to be loved by my father.
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#61. 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.
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#63. I don't think of an actor. I think in the character, and then I search for the actor. Usually I'm thinking without names, because they will change my idea. No big egos. If I want egos - just mine. That is enough.
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#64. Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.
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#65. Every mind has another vision of reality. There is not a common reality. Every person thinks he is like the others, but every person is different, living in his own psychology.
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#67. We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.
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#68. I say, 'If somebody steals something of yours, then it's good; he loves what you do.'
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#69. Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.
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#70. One day I was sitting in my own pain, and suddenly all the pain and troubles of the world came to me. I received all the pain of the world, all through my body.
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#71. 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.
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#72. Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.
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#73. 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.
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#75. God does not exist, God is not good. All that awaits us is the cat who will urinate on our grave.
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#76. I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures: because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong.
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#77. He who understands philosophy understands laughter. That mysterious Word at the beginning, mentioned in the Bible, is a divine guffaw.
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#80. To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers?
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#83. Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.
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#84. What's important is to give your ideas to the world if you love the world.
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#86. 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.
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#88. In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside.
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#89. Lady Gaga has a lot of energy, and that is fantastic, but she is using old surrealist images.
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#91. I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it's canceled, they can't break out on their own.
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#92. We may overindulge at times, but we then control ourselves and go back to a more moderate diet. There is a mudra that illustrates this situation quite well: "If the animal leaves the flock, I take it back to the flock. If it leaves again, I take it back again." Spiritual
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#93. 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.
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#98. When I brought 'El Topo' to New York, no one understood the picture. But John Lennon understood. John and Yoko Ono, they presented 'El Topo' in the United States; they introduced it.
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#100. 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!
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