Jacob Epstein
American-British sculptor (1880–1959)
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.
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Quotes
edit- 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.
- 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, 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.
- Sir Jacob Epstein, Epstein, Jacob Let there be sculpture New York: G. P. Putnam's sons, [c 1940] p. 193
