I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
This is the thing: Art is more important than making a show, something that amuses people. Art is something that needs to… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything. You are sitting and seeing something moving in… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
If the picture is not an artistic picture, it's show, like television. Television series are very funny, but it's a collective production.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“French Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin would never have become Gauguin if he had not followed this principle. He was a bank employee… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
What is an artistic picture? An artistic picture is very simple. The creator is not the producer. The creator is not the… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Every artist - even if they do Superman, they do Batman, and things like that - they are speaking about his life.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book,… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I am an artist. For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I never wanted to study art. And I don't think you need to study art if you are an artist. It's even… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
'Santa Sangre' is the picture I love the best, myself, because 'El Topo' and 'The Holy Mountain' I made with my head, and 'Santa… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
One day I was sitting in my own pain, and suddenly all the pain and troubles of the world came to me. I received… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
