“I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.” LanguageMarkersPseudonyms Author:Chris Marker
“What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.” InterestCrossesPassionateSections Author:Chris Marker
“I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.” LongBetrayalLong AgoBetrayedGutenberg Author:Chris Marker
“In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don’t choose your time.” Has BeensGirlCatAnother Time Author:Chris Marker
“...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us.” CountryCertainChanceTakenMoodPassingChosenPassingsMapsQuantityImaginaryPostcards Author:Chris Marker
“And always the animals from each trip you bring back a gaze a pose a gesture that points to the truest of humanity better than images of humanity itself” HumanityAnimalGesturesTruest Author:Chris Marker
“We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.” FeelsArtLevelsEmotionObjectsRemainsPhotographerPhotographLinkedDomainSouvenirsPersonal History Author:Chris Marker
“An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.” LightDiesObjects Author:Chris Marker
“I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?” TryingRememberMemoriesForgetOppositesFunctionThirst Author:Chris Marker
“Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.” MomentsShowsMemoriesOrdinaryClaimsScarRemembranceOrdinary Moments Author:Chris Marker
“Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt of separation loses its real limits. With time, the desired body will soon disappear, and if the desiring body has already ceased to exist for the other, then what remains is a wound, disembodied.” IfsSaidRealBodyWould BeLosesHurtLimitsRemainsDisappearWoundsSeparationHealTime HealsTime Heals AllTime Heals All Wounds Author:Chris Marker
“I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me.” WorldStillsInterestRoundsBanality Author:Chris Marker
“When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.” MenArtDiesCultureStatuesBotany Author:Chris Marker
