Robert Capa Quotes

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

  Robert Capa

  Photography, Photographer, Good Enough

  Robert Capa (1987). “Robert Capa: cuadernos de guerra en España (1936-1939).”

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• 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)

  Robert Capa

  War, Cameras, Truth Is

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

  Robert Capa

  Photography, Art, Photojournalism

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

  Robert Capa

  Talent, Enough, Hungarians

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• 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

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

  Robert Capa

  Photography, Exposure, Ifs

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

  Robert Capa

  Photography, War, Till The End

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• 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

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

  Robert Capa

  Photography, Truth Is, Best Picture

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• Like people and let them know it.

  Robert Capa

  People, Knows

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

  Robert Capa

  War, Actresses, Dangerous

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

  Robert Capa

  War, Desire, Photographer

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

  Robert Capa

  Hate, War, Goes On

  "The Hubris and Despair of War Journalism" by Susie Linfield, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2012.

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• 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.

  Robert Capa

  Devil, Care, Photographer

  Robert Capa (2015). “Slightly Out Of Focus”, p.245, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

  Robert Capa

  War, Wish, Unemployment

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• 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

  Robert Capa (2015). “Slightly Out Of Focus”, p.161, Pickle Partners Publishing

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

  Robert Capa

  War, Missing, Invasion

  Robert Capa (2015). “Slightly Out Of Focus”, p.142, Pickle Partners Publishing

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