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

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

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

Poetry is like passion--it should not be merely pretty

Deed of darkness is dark gloom.

This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.

If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look.

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.

If you were your own employer, would you be entirely satisfied with the day’s work you have done today?

To whatever degree we are alert, aware, to that degree we are living

Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!