Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

Art

Giving

Reality

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 shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

Butterfly

Thinking

Wings

Don’t make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.

Cinema

Hollywood

Reality

Every artist – even if they do Superman, they do Batman, and things like that – they are speaking about his life. Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.

Artist

Artwork

Persons

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.

Psychology

Reality

Thinking

Every person has a talent, but not the same one. Every person has to discover his personal talent and go with his talent. And then you are you, and what you do, you do because you love what you do, not because you want to be famous or because you’re making money. You do the work because you love it.

Making Money

Talent

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

Artist

Inspirational

Opportunity

For art to be art it has to cure.

Art

Cures

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.

Differences

Humanity

War

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.

Art

Intellectual

Soul

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Accompany You

Ambition

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Artist

Artwork

Believe

Body

Book

Butterfly

Can Do

Car

Cinema

Compare

Consciousness

Couple

Creativity

Cures

Curiosity

Differences

Different

Difficult

Doe

Drug

Energy

Everyday

Eye

Failing

Feels

Fighting

Giving

Glasses

Goal

Good Life

Groups

Hallucinations

Heart

Hollywood

Humanity

Ideas

Ifs

Insanity

Inspirational

Intellectual

Knows

Latin

Latin America

Limits

Madness

Making Money

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Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

Don’t make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.

Every artist – even if they do Superman, they do Batman, and things like that – they are speaking about his life. Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.

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.

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

For art to be art it has to cure.

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.

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.

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