With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.

- Cornell Capa

Images at their passionate and truthful best are as powerful as words can ever be. If they alone cannot bring change, they can at least provide and u…

- Cornell Capa

The idea that any photography can't be personal is madness! I see something; it goes through my eye, brain, heart, guts; I choose the subject. What c…

- Cornell Capa

The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.

- Cornell Capa

The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.

- Cornell Capa

One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.

- Cornell Capa

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

- Cornell Capa

I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what I really hope is that I have done some good ph…

- Cornell Capa