Margaret Keane: Quotes about children

Margaret Keane is American artist. Explore interesting quotes on children.
Margaret Keane: 30   quotes 1   like

“Gradually it dawned on me that I was painting my own inner emotions. Those children were asking: "Why are we here? What is life all about? Why is there sadness and injustice?" All those deep questions. Those children were sad because they didn't have the answers. They were searching.”

Margaret Keane

1999, Cited by Amy M. Spindler
Context: Gradually it dawned on me that I was painting my own inner emotions. Those children were asking: "Why are we here? What is life all about? Why is there sadness and injustice?" All those deep questions. Those children were sad because they didn't have the answers. They were searching.

Life , Children , Sadness , Search

“Children do have big eyes. When I'm doing a portrait, the eyes are the most expressive part of the face. And they just got bigger and bigger and bigger.”

Margaret Keane

2014, Cited by Jesse Hamlin

Children , Parting

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

Margaret Keane

2014, Cited by Jesse Hamlin

Children , World , Sadness , Hope