Anton Corbijn Quotes & Sayings

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

“I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but only a part of it - you know, it's more extreme, there's more happening, it's more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.”

“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.”

“If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.”

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

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

“In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.”

“Analog is more beautiful than digital, really, but we go for comfort.”

“I love body language.”