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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

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

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

Walter Keane
Art, Ambition, Support

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

Walter Keane
Success, Alive, Tragic

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.

People don't buy lady art.

Walter Keane
Art, People, Selling

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