Robert Capa Quotes

• If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.

  Robert Capa

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  Tags in Enough, Pictures, Close

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

  Robert Capa

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  Tags in War, Miss, Date

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

  Robert Capa

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  Tags in Hope, End, War

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

  Robert Capa

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  Tags in Company, Decided, Wave

• 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.

  Robert Capa

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  Tags in Freedom, Girls, Better

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

  Robert Capa

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  Tags in Anything, Around, Easy

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

  Robert Capa

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  Tags in Enough, Talent, Also

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

  Robert Capa

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  Tags in Hate, Must, War

• The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

  Robert Capa

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Best, Picture

• 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

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  Tags in Back, War, Put

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

  Robert Capa

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  Tags in War, Old, Getting

• The pictures are there, and you just take them.

  Robert Capa

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  Tags in Pictures

Robert Capa (12)

Birth:	22nd October, 1913
Death:	25th May, 1954
Nationality:	Hungarian
Profession:	Photographer

About

Robert Capa was a Hungarian combat photographer and photojournalist who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War.

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