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

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.

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.

If its clear that you are doing right thing, just go ahead. But answer yourself first before doing something.

Your past is your story. Your story is your most powerful asset. Embrace it.

What if everything you have been taught is all a lie and everything you feel is all a truth?

I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through.

Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.

Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.

Have they discovered evolution yet?

I'm definitely not afraid to be wrong.