Robert Capa War Quotations

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

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

The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on

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

The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)

You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

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 the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.