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)

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

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

Find your life’s purpose and dare to pursue it.

There's no saving him from his deep hole. There's no saving me from my black slug.

Everyone takes part in the mosque for one reason

One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero.

Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind.

In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

The world is as good as you are. You've got to learn to like yourself first.

You can start where you are with what you've got and go wherever it is you want to go.