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

This statement was made before the public learned that Margaret, and not Walter, was the painter of the Big Eyed waifs.
Interviewed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WgStC6fvtM by Gary E. Park (circa 1964).
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