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Top 15 Chris Marker Quotes (2025 Update)

Chris Marker Quote: “Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.”

1. “Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.”

— Chris Marker

Chris Marker Quote: “An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.”

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

— Chris Marker

Chris Marker Quote: “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?”

3. “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?”

— Chris Marker

Chris Marker Quote: “When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.”

4. “When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.”

— Chris Marker

Chris Marker Quote: “Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.”

5. “Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.”

— Chris Marker

Chris Marker Quote: “In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don’t choose your time.”

6. “In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don’t choose your time.”

— Chris Marker

Chris Marker Quote: “He liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time. Those memories whose only function had been to leave behind nothing but memories. He wrote: I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me. On this trip I’ve tracked it with the relentlessness of a bounty hunter. At dawn we’ll be in Tokyo.”

7. “He liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time. Those memories whose only function had been to leave behind nothing but memories. He wrote: I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me. On this trip I’ve tracked it with the relentlessness of a bounty hunter. At dawn we’ll be in Tokyo.”

— Chris Marker

Chris Marker Quote: “What I’m passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.”

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

— Chris Marker

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

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

— Chris Marker

Chris Marker Quote: “I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.”

10. “I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.”

— Chris Marker

Chris Marker Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Chris Marker

Chris Marker Quote: “Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments, only later do they make themselves known, from their scars.”

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

— Chris Marker

Chris Marker Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Chris Marker

Chris Marker Quote: “Humour is the courtesy of despair.”

14. “Humour is the courtesy of despair.”

— Chris Marker

Chris Marker Quote: “I’m writing you this letter from the edge of the world. According to a Siberian proverb, the forest was made by the devil. The devil did a good job; his forest is as big as the United States of America. But maybe the devil made the United States too.”

15. “I’m writing you this letter from the edge of the world. According to a Siberian proverb, the forest was made by the devil. The devil did a good job; his forest is as big as the United States of America. But maybe the devil made the United States too.”

— Chris Marker

Chris Marker Quote: “She accepts the ways of this visitor as a natural phenomenon; How he comes and goes, exists, talks, laughs with her, falls silent, listens to her, and then he vanishes.”

16. “She accepts the ways of this visitor as a natural phenomenon; How he comes and goes, exists, talks, laughs with her, falls silent, listens to her, and then he vanishes.”

— Chris Marker

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