"It seems to me that Berkeley perceives matter as a thin transparent film situated between man and God. it remains transparent as long as philosophers leave it alone... but let the metaphysicians meddle with it or even common sense in so far as it deals in metaphysics; immediately the film becomes dull, thick & opaque, and forms a screen... like a layer of dust, and hinders us from seeing God through the transparency."Henri Bergson, An Introduction to Metaphysics: The Creative Mind, Helix Books, 1983, 119
"We observe the anarchistic intention of blowing up the continuum of history and we can account for it in terms of the subversive force of this new aesthetic consciousness. Modernity revolts against the normalizing functions of the tradition; modernity lives on the experience of rebelling against all that is normative. This revolt is one way to neutralize the standards of both morality and utility"Jürgen Habermans, Modernity an Incomplete Project, from Postmodernism A Reader, edited by Patricia Waugh, Arnold, 1992, 162
"...A tendency towards hero worship and messianism which we see through out Jodorowky's work. He appears to have always been looking for guru figures (and regarded himself as one) and in this way to have regarded breton as an embodiment of surrealism, something fundamentally opposed to it's collective spirit."Micheal Richardson, Surrealism and Cinema, Berg Press, 2006, 136
"Images that are both real and not real are in the nature of filmic discourse, as is constant flux and movement which denies these images and stability or certainly and constantly threatens their diagetic status and the juxtaposition of distant realities which is the natural dialectic of montage, but which can disrupt the spatial and temporal continuity of the narrative as easily as it creative it."Wendy Everett, Screen Threshold: The disorienting typographies of surrealist film, Screen Vol. 39, No. 3, Summer, 1998, 149
