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

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

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)

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

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.

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

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

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

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

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

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

Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.

You don't have to believe in Feng Shui for it to work. I just know it brings me money.

Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

Right now, if there's a gender gap problem, it's not Ronald Reagan with women; it's with Walter Mondale with men.

I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.

Most of us have loved. And the terror for a writer is that readers will forgive you so much, but they won't forgive you one false note about love, about which they too are expert.

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.

If you insist, how can I resist?