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Walter Keane Quotes

1915–2000 United States

Walter Stanley Keane (7 October 1915–27 December 2000) was an American plagiarist who became famous in the 1960s as claimed painter of a series of widely reproduced paintings depicting vulnerable waifs with enormous eyes. The paintings were in fact painted by his wife, Margaret Keane.

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Let's face it, nobody could paint eyes like El Greco, and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.

We don't criticize them, so why criticize Walter Keane just because his symbol of humanity is a child?

I don't really care what people think of me. Whatever anyone may say, I've helped the whole art world, just as Picasso and Dalí have. I've made people aware of painting, which makes them buy more, just like they go buy more records and books once they're exposed.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Walter Keane (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.