"I still paint sad children, because there's sadness in the world, but they have hope, and I have hope."

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“I'd have to lock the door of the paint room. He wouldn't allow anyone in. I was like a prisoner.”

“But what I like most about Keane, myself, is that he's mass-produced, like a factory.”

“I think what Keane has done is just terrific. It has to be good. If it were bad, so many people wouldn't like it.”

“Margaret is probably the greatest woman painter alive.”

“It was the eyes that did it. I liked the way he painted eyes and he liked mine.”

“He can't paint eyes. He couldn't learn to paint at all.”

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