Quotes About Robert Capa

#1. Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: 'If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough.' But in retrospect I add a corollary: if you're too close to events, you lose perspective.

Micha Bar-Am

#2. [Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. I love the Dutch impressionists - Vermeer, Rembrandt. What they were able to do with light was astonishing. As for photographers, I think mostly of the Hungarians: Robert Capa, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Jozsef Pesci. In fact, I have one of his photographs hanging in my house.

Vilmos Zsigmond

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

Robert Capa

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

Robert Capa

#6. Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.

Gore Vidal

#7. The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.

Michael Bloomberg

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

Robert Capa

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"

Jim Gaffigan

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

Robert Capa

#13. You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I use it. My brain is my mechanism; I use it.

Rajneesh

#14. The patriotism in Britain comes from us being a leader. On jobs, on tax havens, on workers' rights, on the environment. We can be leading Europe ... and it will be to the benefit of every British citizen.

Gordon Brown

#15. There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is present ... What is it that causes some men to act so hastily and so cruelly? It cannot be that we are so powerful. Is it so much to ask that the poorest people of the land have a measure of justice?

Cesar Chavez

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

Robert Capa

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

Robert Capa

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

Robert Capa

#19. Like people and let them know it.

Robert Capa

#20. 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

#21. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

Robert Capa

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

Robert Capa

#23. I wait for this rare and fleeting event because I can't think of anything else worth waiting for.

Peter Davis

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

Robert Capa

#25. What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure?

Robert Capa

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

Robert Capa

#27. 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

#28. The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

Robert Capa

#29. 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

#30. If you don't believe you can do something then you can't.

Kai Greene

#31. A company of wolves, is better than a company of wolves in sheep's clothing.

Anthony Liccione

#32. The pictures are there, and you just take them.

Robert Capa