Robert Capa quotes

Robert Capa was a Hungarian-born war photographer and photojournalist, renowned for his powerful images of conflict. His work captured the human experience of war in some of the 20th century’s most important events, including the Spanish Civil War and D-Day. He is remembered as one of the greatest photographers in the history of photojournalism. Here are 11 of his quotes:

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

Robert Capa

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

Robert Capa

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

Robert Capa

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

Robert Capa

War is like an actress, ever more dangerous and ever less photogenic.

Robert Capa

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

Robert Capa

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

Robert Capa

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

Robert Capa

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.

Robert Capa