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 of relativi…

- Jacob Epstein

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 …

- Jacob Epstein

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

- Jacob Epstein

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 sitter and to himse…

- Jacob Epstein

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 by the …

- 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 to exhaustion and impotence.

- Jacob Epstein

The artist is the world's scapegoat.

- Jacob Epstein

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 success.

- 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