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
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.
The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.
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.
What's important is to give your ideas to the world if you love the world.
In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.
I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.
Death is an art, you know.
The tarot is sacred.
For me they are no different, reality and dreams.
We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.
We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.
When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot.
'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.
I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.
I don't believe in failing. I have dignity.
I like Hollywood movies. I like them like I like to eat scrambled eggs; I like them for fun.
It's so weird to be alive and to be inside a body.
Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.
Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.
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.
Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.
George Harrison wanted to play the thief in 'Holy Mountain.'
When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.
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.
I'm a purist.
For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.
In order to be something, you must do something.
The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.
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.
Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.
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.
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.
I am old, but I feel very beautiful.
I wanted to be loved by my father. I could do anything to be loved by my father.
To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.
Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.
I am an honest artist.
My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.
The worse the newspapers speak of the world, the better I feel.
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.
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.
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.
When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist.
I don't have interest in life. Life has an interest in me.
I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.
In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies.
I am still radical!
Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.
When I'm tired, I see industrial pictures. But I'll see one every two months. If I see one every day, I'll become an idiot.
