Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Capa

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American photographer Robert Capa.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Robert Capa was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist as well as the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taro. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history.

American - Photographer | October 22, 1913 - May 25, 1954

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

Robert Capa

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

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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.

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

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The pictures are there, and you just take them.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

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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)

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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.

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Like people and let them know it.

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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.

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