Margaret Keane Quotes

American artist (1927–2022)

Margaret D. H. Keane (born Peggy Doris Hawkins; 15 September 1927) is an American artist. Creator of the "big eyed waifs", Keane is famous for drawing paintings with big eyes and mainly paints women, children, and animals in oil or mixed media. In the 1960s, Keane became one of the most popular and successful artists of the time. During this time, her artwork was sold under the name of her husband, Walter Keane, who claimed credit for her paintings. Their life together was the subject of the 2014 Tim Burton film Big Eyes.

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Pen Names: Keane, Margaret D. H.

Birth Name: Peggy Doris Hawkins

Alternative Names: Margaret D. H. Keane • M. D. H. Keane • Margaret Peggy Doris Hawkins Keane

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I still paint sad children, because there's sadness in the world, but they have hope, and I have hope.

He can't paint eyes. He couldn't learn to paint at all.

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.

And Margaret, uh, has done a lot of experimenting in her work. I think, probably, no artist has experimented the way Margaret has.