Robert Capa Quotes

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

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

The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.

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.

What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure?

It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.

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)

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

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

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.

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

I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.

On the train to London, with those successfully exposed rolls in my bag, I hated myself and my profession. This sort of photography was only for undertakers, and I didn't like being one. If I was to share the funeral, I swore, I would have to share the procession.