22 Quotes by Chris Marker

Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments, only later do they make themselves known, from their scars.

The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland, in 1965. He said that for him it was the image of happiness and also that he had tried several times to link it to other images, but it never worked. He wrote me: one day I'll have to put it all alone at the beginning of a film with a long piece of black leader; if they don't see happiness in the picture, at least they'll see the black.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.

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

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.

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.