Jacob Epstein

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

— Jacob Epstein

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

— Jacob Epstein

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

— Jacob Epstein

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

— Jacob Epstein

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

— Jacob Epstein

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

— Jacob Epstein

A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in…

— Jacob Epstein

The artist is the world's scapegoat.

— Jacob Epstein

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

— Jacob Epstein

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

— Jacob Epstein

To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.

— Jacob Epstein

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

— Jacob Epstein

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

— Jacob Epstein

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

— Jacob Epstein

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

— Jacob Epstein

I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and…

— Jacob Epstein

As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness…

— Jacob Epstein