221 Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

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 business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

When you find love, real love, it’s like a catastrophe, like a tsunami. Like an earthquake, because all your individuality, all what you believed you are, it’s breaking. And you are completely another person. You never know what you were. And it’s a catastrophe –– but a good catastrophe, not a bad catastrophe.

Words don’t heal. Art heals!

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.

He who understands philosophy understands laughter. That mysterious Word at the beginning, mentioned in the Bible, is a divine guffaw.

I am a victim. To be an artist is to be a victim, because if you don’t do what you want to do you die. That is the reality.

I thought I was what I am, but in reality I’m still what I was. And that which I was, well, I don’t know what it is. Perhaps some day I will know. Then I’ll be what I shall be, but I’ll stop being what I am now. And ceasing to be what I am now horrifies and terrifies me. Help me, please, you two!

I understand. Seraphim, I hope you know you have a great talent. You are a real artist. What you did in the dining room has a deep meaning. It is, no more or less than the very picture of life as it is lived by all of us poor mortals. We try to sweeten it, but the agreeable part stays on the outside because life is always bitter within.

When the bull’s-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.