Top 15 Margaret Keane Quotes

But what I like most about Keane, myself, is that he's mass-produced, like a factory.

I think what Keane has done is just terrific. It has to be good. If it were bad, so many people wouldn't like it.

Margaret is probably the greatest woman painter alive.

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

His art is in heroic bad taste. It's incredibly vulgar, it's weird, but it's still gorgeous. Bad-taste entertainment is the best entertainment. What I really love about Keane is that he is so commercial.

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.

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

I lost all respect for him and myself, and lived in a nightmare.

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.

Walter was extremely charming. He could charm anybody, especially women.

He'd threatened me so many times. I thought he was so crazy he could hire a hit man to come get me anytime.

The older I get, the brighter colours I live. But in the past, they were dark, dingy, sad colours.

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.

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.

I'd have to lock the door of the paint room. He wouldn't allow anyone in. I was like a prisoner.