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)

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.

It’s not enough to have talent. You also have to be Hungarian.