Alejandro Jodorowsky Surreal Quotations

The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.

For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.

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-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.