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Margaret Keane
14 quotes
“It was the eyes that did it. [timid giggle] I liked the way he painted eyes and he liked mine.”
Margaret Keane (1927–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“M, you see, is four, and D is four too, and H is eight, and four and four and eight are sixteen, which is made up of one and six, which make seven—my number.”
Margaret Keane (1927–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He can't paint eyes. He couldn't learn to paint at all.”
Margaret Keane (1927–2022) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in "The lady behind those Keane-eyed kids," LIFE 69, no. 21 (20 November 1970), p. 56.
“I had just announced for the first time publicly on a radio show in San Francisco that I had done all the Keane paintings and not my ex-husband. And this, um, Bill Flang of the San Francisco Examiner thought that Walter and I should appear in Union Square and have a paint-off to decide who had done the paintings, since I was—said that I had done them. So, he arranged it, and LIFE magazine as there and all the different newspapers and t.v. stations and they, uh—some of them in the audience played "High Noon"—[laughs] And, of course, Walter didn't show up.”
Margaret Keane (1927–2022) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed on The Mike Douglas Show (1972).
“I'd have to lock the door of the paint room. He wouldn't allow anyone in. I was like a prisoner.”
Margaret Keane (1927–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gradually it dawned on me that I was painting my own inner emotions. Those children were asking: "Why are we here? What is life all about? Why is there sadness and injustice?" All those deep questions. Those children were sad because they didn't have the answers. They were searching.”
Margaret Keane (1927–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A lot of art today doesn't convey much hope, and I hope mine does. I try to paint what I think the future holds and my innermost feelings about God's promise for the future.”
Margaret Keane (1927–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The older I get, the brighter colours I live. But in the past, they were dark, dingy, sad colours.”
Margaret Keane (1927–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He'd threatened me so many times. I thought he was so crazy he could hire a hit man to come get me anytime.”
Margaret Keane (1927–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Walter was extremely charming. He could charm anybody, especially women.”
Margaret Keane (1927–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Children do have big eyes. When I'm doing a portrait, the eyes are the most expressive part of the face. And they just got bigger and bigger and bigger.”
Margaret Keane (1927–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I lost all respect for him and myself, and lived in a nightmare.”
Margaret Keane (1927–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I still paint sad children, because there's sadness in the world, but they have hope, and I have hope.”
Margaret Keane (1927–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art, it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.”
Margaret Keane (1927–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source