Anton Corbijn Quotes

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• Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.
• Photography has taken me from isolation.
• I don’t crop my images and I always shoot handheld. By doing that I build in a kind of imperfection and this helps to emphasize…
• I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive…
• My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.
• Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense…
• With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.
• For me N.M.E. was a very big thing. When I first came to the United Kingdom I started taking pictures for them and I became…
• There's only one music video that had an emotional impact on me, and that's 'Hurt' by Johnny Cash. That's exceptional. There is no music video…
• I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.
• Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.
• I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.
• The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.
• I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just…
• My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.
• I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.
• There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.
• I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I…
• I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious.
• I do have an ego, but I acknowledge the help I get.

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