Alejandro Jodorowsky: Quotes about art

Alejandro Jodorowsky is Filmmaker and comics writer. Explore interesting quotes on art.
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“Once centenarian teacher who had the body of an adolescent told me he had studied martial arts. "Me, too," I answered. We were in Notre Dame, and he said, "Attack me." I put myself in a combat position, and he moved his left hand in such an incredibly beautiful way that while I looked at it, fascinated, he gave me a big slap. "Beauty is the most dangerous weapon," he warned. It took me a long time to understand. He used a secret Chinese practice, which consists of drawing a snake in the air with your hand to distract the enemy. And that is how beauty is: the most awful weapon.”

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Secret , Beauty , Art , Way

“We have to stop thinking that God is going to fix everything and saying that if God made everything bad in this universe then we are here to do to, too, again. If there is a God, we are here to help him. This requires that we take possession of the world and of ourselves. We must do what we want to do with full consciousness and with full responsibility. In this level of divine consciousness, we find true art.”

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

God , World , Art , Thinking

“For art to be art it has to cure.”

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Art

“I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.”

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Anarchy and Alchemy: the Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky by Ben Cobb (2007) p. 115

Art , Thinking , Learning , Change

“That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it.”

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Art , Way