Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.
From Margaret Keane
I was always drawing eyes, even as a child. Eyes fascinated me.
In the beginning, I started doing portraits of children, and of course, children have large eyes. For some reason, they just started getting bigger and bigger. Then, when I started painting imaginary children rather than real ones, they became bigger still.
I would like to think all our gifts and talents and abilities come from God.
I didn't want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, crazy people, you know. So I always kind of hid the fact that I was an artist.
The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.
I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy.
Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.
I'm a night person; I don't usually get up till noon.
I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.
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