Christian Marclay Quotes

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

There's a million different ways you can look at a moment.

We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.

The universe would appear to be something like a piece of cheese; it can be sliced in an infinite number of ways- and when one has chosen his own pattern of slicing, he finds that other men's cuts fall at the wrong places.

value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.

To me the ambiguity is, maybe our perception of ourselves is always going to be different than somebody else's perception. There will always be that disparity.

Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?

Maybe no one can know how it is for anyone else.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

Opinions can't be inaccurate.

To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph or reflection ever gives us the same slant on ourselves that others see. It has often been proved on the witness stand that no two people ever see the same accident precisely the same way. We see through different eyes and from different angles. But if we could see things as other people see them, we could come closer to knowing why they do what they do and why they say what they say.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

This can't be true but I remember it.

Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings.

Beauty is an opinion not a fact.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.

Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective.

I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.