Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

Chilean - Director | February 17, 1929 -

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

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Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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'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.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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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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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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Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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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.

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Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.

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The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.

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I wanted to be loved by my father. I could do anything to be loved by my father.

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Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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