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Jacob Epstein
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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 (1880–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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 (1880–1959) first seen 1955 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jacob Epstein, An Autobiography (London, 1955), p. 29
“Shiva dances, creating the world and destroying it, his large rhythms conjure up vast aeons of time, and his movements have a relentless magical power of incantation. Our European allegories are banal and pointless by comparison with these profound works, devoid of the trappings of symbolism, concentrating on the essential, the essentially plastic.”
Jacob Epstein (1880–1959) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sir Jacob Epstein, Epstein, Jacob Let there be sculpture New York: G. P. Putnam's sons, [c 1940] p. 193