Top 124 Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.

The worse the newspapers speak of the world, the better I feel.

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.

Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.

We only have problems we really want to have.

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.

I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it's canceled, they can't break out on their own.

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.

I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.