Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

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• I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.
• The worse the newspapers speak of the world, the better I feel.
• In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.
• My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.
• I am an honest artist.
• 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…
• Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.
• The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.
• To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.
• Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.
• 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.
• I wanted to be loved by my father. I could do anything to be loved by my father.
• If God gives you chocolate, you open your mouth, no?
• Books are finished.
• My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.
• Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything.
• All my life, I have never found a person who really loved this world. Every person hates the world, how he is.
• Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.
• We only have problems we really want to have.
• To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers?

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