"A lot of art today doesn't convey much hope, and I hope mine does. I try to paint what I think the future holds and my innermost feelings about God's promise for the future."

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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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