Jacob Epstein Quotes

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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.
• Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us?
• 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 and…
• The artist is the world's scapegoat.
• 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 theory…
• My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated…
• I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded…
• Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends,…
• My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a…
• There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends…
• The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the…
• A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of…

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