The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

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

it is not only what we have that enhance our dignity but what we do with what we have also magnifies our reputation to the highest level

I've never felt that anger is a very powerful emotion.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

I find it odd that suddenly people believe the United States is this Islamophobic country. I think this is the most tolerant country in the world.

There are no new ideas about female education.

I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized.

Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career.

I like to go to the races at Hollywood Park, but I don't usually win with the horses, so afterward I go to Auntie Em's and drown my sorrows in a red velvet cupcake. It never fails me.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.