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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.

~Alejandro Jodorowsky

Topics: Am Art Artist Coming Deep Intellectual Like Make Me Picture Place Poetry Side Soul Unconscious Understand You Your I Am

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For me 'Dune' was a dream - a big dream!

~Alejandro Jodorowsky

Topics: Big Dream Me

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In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.

~Alejandro Jodorowsky

Topics: Desire Discover History Interior Plants Priests Psychedelic Used Were

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I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't 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; it's from another century, it's not for today.

~Alejandro Jodorowsky

Topics: Another Anymore Because Believe Century Despised False Goal Interior Morals Mysticism Now Old Own Prejudice Priest Religion Religions Religious Religious Wars See Temple Today Too Wars Woman You Your I Believe I Believe In

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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.

~Alejandro Jodorowsky

Topics: Alive All My Friends Am Beautiful Die Fantastic Friends Life Life Is Beautiful Morning Say Still Think You I Am Ah

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Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.

~Alejandro Jodorowsky

Topics: Miraculous Ocean Same Scientific Thought Two Unconscious Waves

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Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.

~Alejandro Jodorowsky

Topics: Cats Five Life Need Woman

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Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.

~Alejandro Jodorowsky

Topics: Again Art Belongs Dimension Every His Mona Paint Third Time Work Would

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The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.

~Alejandro Jodorowsky

Topics: Adding Come Every Every Night Everyone Good Good News Ill Just Just Be Knows Madrid Need Negativity News Night Optimistic Otherwise Piece Planet Read Tv Would

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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

Topics: Alone Brain Go Imagination Indicate Intuition Language Learned Left Need Person Rational Right Right Side Side Silence Symbols Think Truth University Way Words You Young Young Person

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Biography

Nationality: Chilean

Type: Director

Born: February 17th, 1929

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