Jacob Epstein Quotes

10 November 1880 – August 19, 1959

Sir Jacob Epstein (10 November 1880 – 19 August 1959) was an American-born British sculptor who worked chiefly in the UK, where he pioneered modern sculpture. He also painted, and exhibited pictures regularly in exhibitions.

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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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)

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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

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