Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

All you can do as an artist is do what you think is an extension of you. You put down on paper ... who you are. That's what being an artist is all about. And when it gets done, you don't look back at it and say, Oh, I could have done that better.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Part of being an artist is being able to write about the world you live in and the times that you've been a part of.

Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time.

The artist is a combination of what's happened to them in their lives and how it's filtered through the way they think. That's what makes me different than Samantha Brown or Anthony Bourdain.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

As artists, we can't help but infuse our art with our own experience, so your experience becomes informative.

All the great artists illustrate their approach to life in the work they make.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was going to draw a picture on it. And whether that picture was good or bad, whatever people thought of it, what they could never take away was that it was my picture.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes.

I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever wants to know something about me -as an artist, the only notable thing- ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do.