Quotes from Robert Capa

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Listen, old goat, today doesn't matter and tomorrow doesn't matter. It's the end of the game that counts and how many chips you've got in your pocket -- if you're still playing.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

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

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

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

The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

The pictures are there, and you just take them.