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Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 7
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I don't think of an actor. I think in the character, and then I search for the actor. Usually I'm thinking without names, because they will change my idea. No big egos. If I want egos - just mine. That is enough.
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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.
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I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money.
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I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now its from another century, its not for today.
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One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.
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Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
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Movies are movement. A comic-book is immobility. From one still picture to another, but no movement. You need to make the movement in your head. In the movies, you see the movement. It's different. What is the same is the mind of the creator.
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I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.
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Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
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Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines
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Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.
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My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.
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One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.
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You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.
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One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, Is it half full or half empty? So I drank the water. No more problem.
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You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.
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People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.
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Have a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it!
Alejandro Jodorowsky
If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.
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