[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right mome…

- 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 fo…

- 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 furth…

- Pierre Mac Orlan

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

- Pierre Mac Orlan