Robert Capa Quotes
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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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For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
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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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It’s not enough to have talent. You also have to be Hungarian.
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The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.
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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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The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
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What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure?
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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,…
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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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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…
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I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.
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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…
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War is like an aging actress: more and more dangerous and less and less photogenic.
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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…
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If you call yourself an artist, you won't get anything published. Call yourself a photojournalist, and then you can do whatever you want.
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Like the people you shoot and let them know it.
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The refugees on the road are in the hands of fate, with their lives at stake.
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