32+ Anton Corbijn Quotes On Music, Art And Artwork

Anton Corbijn is a Dutch photographer, music video director and film director. He is known for his distinctive black and white portrait photography, often of musicians and other celebrities. He is also well-known for directing music videos for U2, Depeche Mode, Nirvana and Joy Division. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Anton Corbijn on music, art, artwork.

Top 10 Anton Corbijn Quotes

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. By self-analysis you can not change your character, but you may change your mentality.
4. 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.
5. There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.
6. 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.
7. My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Photography has taken me from isolation.

Anton Corbijn Short Quotes

• I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.
• Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.
• I feel that when I shoot anything, and I have something beautiful, I just move on.
• The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

Anton Corbijn Quotes About Music

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

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

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 can think of apart from that one that really reaches you inside. — Anton Corbijn

Anton Corbijn Famous Quotes And Sayings

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 of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection. — Anton Corbijn

Sometimes you don't know if your memory is because you really experienced it or because you look at your old pictures. I have a nice picture of myself held up by my grandfather and my father standing next to me. We all have the same name - we're all called Anton Corbijn. That's something I cherish. — Anton Corbijn

My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the person. Sometimes the person is a disappointment. But that's the risk. It informs me a lot about the character of a person if I know their work first. — Anton Corbijn

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 a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it. — Anton Corbijn

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. — Anton Corbijn

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

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

I'm a very, very basic photographer. The main strength of my pictures, I guess, is the mood and feel I get out of the people that I meet. But technically I don't think I'm very advanced. That never interested me. — Anton Corbijn

I think the fact that you have long - term relationships, this is a very unusual thing in the world, and I thought it was fantastic because you build up a trust. Each time you photograph the person, you try to do something else. — Anton Corbijn

I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been in studios so often, I know the whole process. The mystery's gone from it. I think it's important to keep mystery into our lives. There's a longing connected with it. — Anton Corbijn

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 their main photographer for five years, and that's really been the basis of everything I've been doing since. — Anton Corbijn

I'm actually not so sure what I'm hoping to find making photographs. You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you hope to get something from the person you photograph that's different than other images you know of these people. I don't know how I go about it. I also don't know how exactly what I set out to get other than these two things. — Anton Corbijn

I come unprepared to shooting. 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. I was given very little time to photograph people and I was very scared. — Anton Corbijn

Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that sense, you could just as easily tell the same story from another character's perspective. Maybe that's a good idea for a TV series. — Anton Corbijn

My photography is very European. In America, I always get the sense that people are comforted by understanding what they're looking at. Photography's quite clear here [in the U.S.], it's very well-explained. My photography's perhaps not as well-explained. — Anton Corbijn

Life Lessons by Anton Corbijn

1. Anton Corbijn's work emphasizes the importance of capturing the emotion and atmosphere of a moment, rather than simply documenting what is seen.
2. His use of light and shadow to create a mood and tell a story is a great lesson for aspiring photographers.
3. His work demonstrates the power of photography to capture a moment and tell a story without words.