Anton Corbijn Quotes

Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.

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 reality.

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 with the restrictions you give yourself.

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.

By self-analysis you can not change your character, but you may change your mentality.

Photography has taken me from isolation.

I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.

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.

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

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 used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

I feel that when I shoot anything, and I have something beautiful, I just move on.

I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.

It's only when people get involved, when there's money involved, that you have a lot opinions around you. I try not to listen to them too much.

I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.

My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.

For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take a year off and do a film.'

I'm not famous I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.