Pierre Mac Orlan Quotes & Sayings

There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world — Pierre Mac Orlan

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928) — Pierre Mac Orlan

When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere. — Pierre Mac Orlan

The greatest field of photography, for the literary interpretation of life, consists, to my mind, in its latent power to create, as it were, death for a single second. Any thing or person is, at will, made to die for a moment of time so immeasurably small that the return to life is effected without consciousness of the great adventure. (1928) — Pierre Mac Orlan