Margaret Keane Quotes
born 1927 United States
Margaret D. H.
- United States
- Jehovah's witnesses
- Painters
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He can't paint eyes. He couldn't learn to paint at all.
I lost all respect for him and myself, and lived in a nightmare.
I still paint sad children, because there's sadness in the world, but they have hope, and I have hope.
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.
It was the eyes that did it. [timid giggle] I liked the way he painted eyes and he liked mine.
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.
He'd threatened me so many times. I thought he was so crazy he could hire a hit man to come get me anytime.
Walter was extremely charming. He could charm anybody, especially women.
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.
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.
The older I get, the brighter colours I live. But in the past, they were dark, dingy, sad colours.
I'd have to lock the door of the paint room. He wouldn't allow anyone in. I was like a prisoner.