Walter Keane

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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
Collection: War
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Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.
- Walter Keane
Collection: Art
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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.
- Walter Keane
Collection: Success
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Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.
- Walter Keane
Collection: Eye
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People don't buy lady art.
- Walter Keane
Collection: Art