27 Quotes by Robert Capa

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

Like people and let them know it.