If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.
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)
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment
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.