Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Walter Keane

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Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Walter Keane

Walter Stanley Keane was an American plagiarist who became famous in the 1960s as the claimed painter of a series of widely reproduced paintings depicting vulnerable subjects with enormous eyes. The paintings are now accepted as having been painted by his wife Margaret Keane. When she declared her side of the story, Walter Keane retaliated with a USA Today article that again claimed he had done the work.

October 7, 1915 - December 27, 2000
People don't buy lady art.
It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.
Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane. — © Walter Keane
Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.
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.
Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.
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