Best 14 quotes of Robert Capa on MyQuotes

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on

It’s not enough to have talent. You also have to be Hungarian.

Q: Do you really distance yourself from your subject? I mean, what would you do if you were presented with a young girl burning to death? A: About 1/60 at f5.6.

The [concentration camps] were swarming with photographers and every new picture of horror served only to diminish the total effect. Now, for a short day, everyone will see what happened to those poor devils in those camps; tomorrow, very few will care what happens to them in the future.

The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)

The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)