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 More Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky More Quotes From Alejandro Jodorowsky One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are. Alejandro Jodorowsky mystery theater doe Every mind has another vision of reality. There is not a common reality. Every person thinks he is like the others, but every person is different, living in his own psychology. Alejandro Jodorowsky psychology reality thinking Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together. Alejandro Jodorowsky mixing tragedy together You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold. Alejandro Jodorowsky change-yourself gold 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. Alejandro Jodorowsky religious war believe 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. Alejandro Jodorowsky artwork artist persons Humanity are not individuals; we are collective. And if we have difference, we have wars all the time. We have crisis. We need to open our mind. This is the only solution we have. Alejandro Jodorowsky differences humanity war For art to be art it has to cure. Alejandro Jodorowsky cures art We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness. Alejandro Jodorowsky craziness reality You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you. Alejandro Jodorowsky accompany-you madness feels When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words. Alejandro Jodorowsky silence imagination thinking One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity. Alejandro Jodorowsky wise insanity I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal. Alejandro Jodorowsky normal body mind Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease. Alejandro Jodorowsky flying bird thinking Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you. Alejandro Jodorowsky hollywood cinema reality If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison. Alejandro Jodorowsky medicine poison art And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day I'll see you trembling, and you'll go into convulsion and grow larger and smaller until your mouth opens and the world will come from your mouth, escaping through the window like a river, and it will flood the city. And then we'll begin to live. Alejandro Jodorowsky escaping cities rivers When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it. Alejandro Jodorowsky elephants eye success The imagination wants to construct the new worlds, no? Creativity is a solution. If I ask you, "What is your goal in life? How many years do you have to live before to die? How many years do you have? And what you will do with these years you have?" You have pressure there. "How you will realize a good life? How? Tell me!" Then, you start to open your mind. Alejandro Jodorowsky good-life creativity years My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put perfume here on the insides of my soles, I paint my left testicle red, and I write. Alejandro Jodorowsky everyday writing years
