221 Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it. Man, when he achieves an adequate level of consciousness, feels the sacred in everything around him, and the world takes on this essence. The plants, the rocks, the joke: they are sacred; these things are consecrated.

God does not exist, God is not good. All that awaits us is the cat who will urinate on our grave.

Failure doesn’t mean anything, it just means changing paths.

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don’t believe in making art to make money.

When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don’t do it. But myself, I say: “To fail is only to see the way to fail.”

Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines.

I don’t regret any past. I am not there. I am not sorry not to make pictures, because I know one day I will do it. I intend to live 150 years.

A man doesn’t cry. In my life, I’ve never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

I don’t live in France; I live in myself.