Jacob Epstein
Jacob Epstein
Sir Jacob Epstein KBEwas a British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British citizen in 1911. He often produced controversial works which challenged taboos on what was appropriate subject matter for public artworks. He also made paintings and drawings, and often exhibited his work...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth10 November 1880
CityNew York City, NY
art expression world
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 is to limit him.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us?