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

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.

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

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

Maturity is learning not to be run by your emotions. You control your emotions

Convincing a leader of the value of front-line ideas alone is rarely enough for that person to overcome years of entrenched bad habits and to change his management style.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth — is in the form of fiction.

When the whites themselves are attacked, they believe in defending themselves and things of that sort.

One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.