"And Margaret, uh, has done a lot of experimenting in her work. I think, probably, no artist has experimented the way Margaret has."

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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.”

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“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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