Quotes by Anton Corbijn

Anton Corbijn

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

Analysis

Character

Self

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.

Perfection

Stuff

Want

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

Amsterdam

Boys

Village

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.

People

Photograph

Scared

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.

Assistants

Light

Photograph

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.

Helping

Imperfection

Reality

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

Beautiful

Just Move On

Moving

I think some people need the assurance of people around them and ideas worked out in advance. I think it keeps me an edge that to be creative on the spot. You have to think of things to do when you meet people. You limit your choices from the beginning. So I don’t bring a lot of lenses, cameras, all these elements that can help the picture to a shooting. You confine yourself to, say, one room and you just make it work. You become very creative in that little space. You have left a lot of other options out of the game.

Choices

People

Thinking

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.

Giving

School

Thinking

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.

People

Photographer

Thinking

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Amsterdam

Analysis

Assistants

Balance

Beautiful

Boys

Cds

Character

Choices

Different

Disappointment

Each Day

England

Feels

Giving

Helping

Holland

Imperfection

Important

Interesting

Just Move On

Life Changing

Light

Lucky

Moving

Musician

People

Perfection

Photograph

Photographer

Photography

Reality

Records

Scared

School

Self

Simple

Stuff

Thinking

Used

Village

Want

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Quotes by Anton Corbijn

Anton Corbijn

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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