221 Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.

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

Words don't heal. Art heals!

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

I've seen 'Hamlet' many times, and Hamlet, he was just a hideous neurotic; he never changes. He doubts - all the way to the end, all the way until when he dies, he doubts.

You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.

I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.

One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.

'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.