What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I am using because symbols can …

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

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.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambi…

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the sam…

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

I never know if my picture is a good picture or a bad picture, because I'm not making pictures thinking of the public, I'm making pictures to realize…

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

You need to fight in order to count. Don't be afraid to believe the impossible and then fight with yourself to ameliorate yourself. Do it. Believe in…

- Alejandro Jodorowsky