Christoph Waltz credited as playing...
Walter Keane
- Ruben: What's that with the big crazy eyes?
- Walter Keane: Oh. Well, I believe that you can see things in the eyes. The eyes are the window to the soul.
- Walter Keane: Would you rather sell one $500 painting or a million cheaply reproduced posters? See, folks don't care if it's a copy. They just want art that touches them.
- Margaret Keane: I think people buy art because it touches them.
- Walter Keane: Yeah, you're living in fairyland. People don't get to discover anything. They buy art because it's in the right place at the right time.
- Walter Keane: For God's sake, you've seen me paint!
- Margaret Keane: No, I haven't. I always thought that I had, but it's like a mirage. It's like a mirage. From a distance, you look like a painter, but up close, there's not much there.
- Walter Keane: What are you afraid of! Just because people like my work, that means automatically it's bad?
- John Canaday: No, but it doesn't make it art either. Art should elevate, not pander. Particularly in a Hall of Education.
- Walter Keane: You have no idea! Why does someone become a critic? Because he cannot create!
- John Canaday: Oh, dear. That moldy chestnut.
- Walter Keane: Don't interrupt! You don't know what it's like to put your emotions out there, naked for the whole world to see!
- John Canaday: What emotions? It's synthetic hack work. Your masterpiece has an infinity of Keanes, which makes it an infinity of kitsch.
- Walter Keane: What is wrong with the lowest common denominator? Huh? That's what this country was built on! I'm gonna sue everybody.
- Walter Keane: You have an amazing talent. You can look at someone and capture them on canvas. You can paint people. I can only paint things. Yeah, my street scenes are... charming, but at the end of the day, they're just a collection of buildings and sidewalks.