25 quotes found
“For me they are no different, reality and dreams.”
“Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.”
“You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.”
“Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time.”
“If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited.”
“For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.”
“During these past years, not being able to speak with you, I dedicated myself to reviewing, within myself, the sacred books I know by heart. I had the idea I should summarize them in a single volum...”
“This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little world to open up the universe.”
“Although really society should not change, it should mutate. And, little by little, it is mutating...... Society is like the body of a chicken: the chicken's foot is hard and insensitive while the ...”
“If you want to draw some advantage from your history, you must accept not only this miracle but also many others. In memory, everything can become miraculous. All you have to do is wish it, and fre...”
“When the bullseye becomes as big as an elephant in your mind, you wont be able to miss it.”
“I am a victim. To be an artist is to be a victim, because if you don't do what you want to do you die. That is the reality.”
“I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambition? Why? Have the greatest ambition possible. ...”
“Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.”
“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.”
“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, fals...”
“I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when yo...”
“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...”
“I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.”
“Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bour...”
“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.”
“Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying And then ...”
