Walter Keane quotes

“Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.”
-- 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

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“Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.”
-- Walter Keane

Source : "The Man Who Paints Those Big Eyes: The Phenomenal Success of Walter Keane" by Jane Howard, Life Magazine ' 59, no. 9, p. 39, August 27, 1965.

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“People don't buy lady art.”
-- Walter Keane

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“It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.”
-- Walter Keane

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“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.”

“Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.”

“If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.”

Source : Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.33, Vintage

“I have the time needed to support the album and tour.”

“I personally feel that I should support people who are doing good work and people should also support such good work.”

“The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.”

“I'm not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect. On the other hand, it's not toxic and my patients have reported feeling good while taking it, so why not support them?”

“It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally destroyed healthy life than to rebel against those who have no other wish than to avoid disease. Moreover, a policy of laissez faire in this sphere is not only cruelty to the individual guiltless victims but also to the nation as a whole... If the Churches were to declare themselves ready to take over the treatment and care of those suffering from hereditary diseases, we should be quite ready to refrain from sterilizing them.”

“The catalyst that converts any physical location - any environment if you will - into a place, is the process of experiencing deeply. A place is a piece of the whole environment that has been claimed by feelings. Viewed simply as a life-support system, the earth is an environment. Viewed as a resource that sustains our humanity, the earth is a collection of places.”