Margaret Keane Quotes

#1. I'd rather be home alone, painting.

Margaret Keane

#2. I was always drawing eyes, even as a child. Eyes fascinated me.

Margaret Keane

#3. Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.

Margaret Keane

#4. I didn't want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, crazy people, you know. So I always kind of hid the fact that I was an artist.

Margaret Keane

#5. You know my present way of life. Can you suggest any additions to it, in the way of crime, that will reasonably insure my going to some other place.

Mark Twain

#6. People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.

Margaret Keane

#7. If sanity is a frame of mind then insanity must be a mind without a frame

Christopher V.V. Parnell

#8. In the beginning, I started doing portraits of children, and of course, children have large eyes. For some reason, they just started getting bigger and bigger. Then, when I started painting imaginary children rather than real ones, they became bigger still.

Margaret Keane

#9. For many years, I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.

Margaret Keane

#10. The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.

Margaret Keane

#11. If you couldn't handle someone who did the impossible, the improbable, the implausible, then you couldn't handle the VRMMO player known as Kirito.

Reki Kawahara

#12. It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#13. I would like to think all our gifts and talents and abilities come from God.

Margaret Keane

#14. I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.

Margaret Keane

#15. All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#16. I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.

Margaret Keane

#17. I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy.

Margaret Keane

#18. Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.

Margaret Keane

#19. I'm a night person; I don't usually get up till noon.

Margaret Keane

#20. I'm able to sign my name to the paintings. That is really a blessing.

Margaret Keane

#21. Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.

Suzanne Farrell