Chris Marker Quotes

When people say, 'I don't see you enough,' well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist, or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.

The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

To be is to be perceived

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder - some would say impossible - to imagine the end of our very existence.

I dream, therefore I exist.

Visibility is a tricky thing; is someone visible when you can point her out in a crowd, or when you understand what her life feels like to her?

They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

I have to be seen to be believed

To be human is to be visible.

Light knows when you're looking at it.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.