Artist Quotes by Jacob Epstein

9 Artist quotes by Jacob Epstein

Jacob Epstein’s nine reflections on the artist’s mission stress his commitment to form, controversy, and the human figure. This short selection provides a clear sense of his unapologetic stance toward sculptural expression.

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The artist is the world's scapegoat.

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Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us?

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A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has…

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There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist…

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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.

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My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an…

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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…

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The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a…

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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and…

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When I was doing Professor Albert Einstein's bust he had many a jibe at the Nazi professors, one hundred of whom had condemned his…

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A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance…

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My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely…

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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and…

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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon…

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Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us?

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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…

Jacob Epstein

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The artist is the world's scapegoat.

Jacob Epstein

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My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was…

Jacob Epstein

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The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to…

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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.

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There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his…

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To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion…

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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be…

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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have…

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