Robert Capa famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The pictures are there, and you just take them.
-- Robert Capa

#Photography
If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
-- Robert Capa

#Photography #Photographer #Good Enough
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
-- Robert Capa

#Photography #War #Till The End
The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
-- Robert Capa

#Photography #Best Picture #Truth Is
Itâ€™s not enough to have talent. You also have to be Hungarian.
-- Robert Capa

#Talent #Enough
It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.
-- Robert Capa

#Photography #Suffering #Records
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.
-- Robert Capa

#Girl #Distance #Mean
What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure?
-- Robert Capa

#Photography #Exposure
In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on
-- Robert Capa

#War #Hate #Goes On
The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.
-- Robert Capa

#War #Desire #Photographer
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
-- Robert Capa

#War #Missing #Invasion
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

#Horse #War #Hands

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