Astrid Kirchherr Quotes

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Astrid Kirchherr

Profession : Photographer

Birth : May 20, 1938

John's legacy? His bravery. When he had the power, he used it. He really wanted peace on Earth, and John's lyrics, well, that's the brave poetry of the '60s. If he had stayed with us, he could have done so much more.

Astrid Kirchherr

I just had the joy of taking pictures, and I never cared about my negatives. I just gave them away whenever anybody asked for them.

Astrid Kirchherr

I always thought Stuart deserved a little bit of fame. He was a gifted artist and a very wonderful person.

Astrid Kirchherr

They are my friends. If they are the Beatles or the kings of China, it doesn't matter lo me.

Astrid Kirchherr

I have never met a man who I could still say, 'That is the love of my life.' Stuart is. I never met anybody as full of love and giving as this young man.

Astrid Kirchherr

And I was very, very much influenced by the films of Jean Cocteau and by Sartre and everything that came out of France because it was closer than America or England.

Astrid Kirchherr

I love Liverpool and it is great to be back in the city.

Astrid Kirchherr

For me, the music of the Beatles then was serious and very, very serious art. So I couldn't take a picture of John laughing his head off or pulling funny faces because he was a serious artist, even when he was only 20.

Astrid Kirchherr

I'm a very, very silly girl.

Astrid Kirchherr

You couldn't buy any English authors or anything that came from America, like jeans. It was impossible. So we had to do our own clothes if we had weird ideas like wearing long scarves like the French people did. You had to knit them yourself.

Astrid Kirchherr

I'm not a businesswoman... I never looked after my negatives and you need that to prove you took the photographs.

Astrid Kirchherr