Jacob Epstein Quotes
10 November 1880 – August 19, 1959
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Why don't they stick to murder and leave art to us?
Attributed. On hearing that his statue, Lazarus, in New College chapel, Oxford, kept Nikita Khrushchev awake at night. 
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More Jacob Epstein Quotes
A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in my case I'd as soon be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Jacob Epstein— Autobiography (Fletcher & Sons, Norwich, 1963)
To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.
Jacob Epstein— Jacob Epstein, An Autobiography (London, 1955), p. 29
