If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited.

Alejandro Jodorowsky
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  1. For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

  2. 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 volume. Then, in a single chapter, then in a...

  3. This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little world to open up the universe.

  4. 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 eye is very alive. And there are beings who embody the cells...

  5. 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 freezing winter turns into spring, miserable rooms fill up...

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