Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

Creativity is not about making 30 songs in 30 days. It's never about demand and supply. No one can possibly do that.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don't really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need to look for ways to express them that are different. The main reason for doing that is not to bore yourself, and obviously, I don't want to bore readers.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

I think every artist should follow their vision; their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. That said though, I think also artists have, continuously good artists, have been good for their times.

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.