Robert Capa Quotes

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• If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
• It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.
• For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
• I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
• The pictures are there, and you just take them.
• It’s not enough to have talent. You also have to be Hungarian.
• The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.
• In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on
• The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
• What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure?
• The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse,…
• This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.
• 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…
• I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.
• 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…
• War is like an aging actress: more and more dangerous and less and less photogenic.
• 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…
• If you call yourself an artist, you won't get anything published. Call yourself a photojournalist, and then you can do whatever you want.
• Like the people you shoot and let them know it.
• The refugees on the road are in the hands of fate, with their lives at stake.

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