Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Pierre Mac Orlan

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French novelist Pierre Mac Orlan.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Pierre Mac Orlan, sometimes written MacOrlan, was a French novelist and songwriter.

French - Novelist | February 26, 1882 - June 27, 1970

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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

Adventure does not exist. It exists only in the mind of the man who pursues it, and as soon as his fingers graze it, it vanishes to appear much further off, in another form, at the limits of the imagination.

Pierre Mac Orlan

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

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

There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world

Pierre Mac Orlan

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Pierre Mac Orlan

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