Walter Keane Quotes

• As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds and bodies, their matted hair and runny noses. Here my life as a painter began in earnest.

  Walter Keane

  War, Dirty, Hair

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• Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.

  Walter Keane

  Art, Ambition, Support

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• It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

  Walter Keane

  Success, Alive, Tragic

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• Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.

  Walter Keane

  Eye, Deception, Paint

  "The Man Who Paints Those Big Eyes: The Phenomenal Success of Walter Keane" by Jane Howard, Life Magazine ' 59, no. 9, p. 39, August 27, 1965.

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• People don't buy lady art.

  Walter Keane

  Art, People, Selling

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