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

The [concentration camps] were swarming with photographers and every new picture of horror served only to diminish the total effect. Now, for a short day, everyone will see what happened to those poor devils in those camps; tomorrow, very few will care what happens to them in the future.

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

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 war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

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