Top 124 Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

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.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.

When I'm tired, I see industrial pictures. But I'll see one every two months. If I see one every day, I'll become an idiot.

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.

Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic.

In movies, images cost - if you want a big image, it takes more money.

My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute.

In order to be something, you must do something.

I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.