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Pierre Mac Orlan Quotes:

Pierre Mac Orlan quotes

Ocupation: Novelist

Life: February 26, 1882 - June 27, 1970

Birthday: February 26

Death: June 27

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

Topics: People, Taste, Ends

quote documentary photography is unwittingly literary because it is nothing other than an pierre mac orlan Quotes

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

Topics: Adventure, Sea, World

[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)

Topics: Photography, Artist, Documentaries, Documentary Photography, Contemporary Life

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.

Topics: Adventure, Men, Imagination

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)

Topics: Photography, Adventure, Mind

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