Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.

There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture creativity systematically and not kill it unwittingly.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

You just get satisfaction from achieving something that you just don't get in any other way than from being creative.

I need to be creative all the time.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.

All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.

A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.

When I was living in Mexico, I started reassessing my drawing style, and plunged into a period of doing exercises and research to develop a new way to draw. The result was a style that implies more than it shows, and so, ironically, feels more "true" to the scene I want to draw than a style that is more specific. It seems to me that the reader's imagination is able to fill in the gaps more effectively than I ever could. Plus it's a lot faster and more fun to do.

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.

To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff

[My work] just develops and develops, and I'm very nicely served by the universe: just as I'm ready to take the conversation further with myself, some other individual pops up, like David McKenzie did, with this idea of making this film [Teknolust], and provides exactly the leap to the next adventure.

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.