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A wife, a lover, can perhaps ...

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 10 quotes

As a child, I had a serious i...

As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.

Jacob Epstein 10 quotes

To accuse me of making sensat...

To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.

Jacob Epstein 10 quotes

When I was doing Professor Al...

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 relativity in a book. 'Were I wrong,' he said, 'one professor would have been enough.

Jacob Epstein 10 quotes

To think of abstraction as an...

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 10 quotes

I cannot recall a period when...

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 indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.

Jacob Epstein 10 quotes

Early on I saw the plastic qu...

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, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.

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My earliest recollections are...

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 of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.

Jacob Epstein 10 quotes

I cannot recall a period when...

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 indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.

Jacob Epstein 10 quotes

The artist who imagines that ...

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 himself, will have some bitter experiences.

Jacob Epstein 10 quotes

I have never found out that t...

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.

Jacob Epstein 10 quotes

There are infinite modes of e...

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.

Jacob Epstein 10 quotes

My parents did not discourage...

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 person who was condemned to starvation.

Jacob Epstein 10 quotes

My reading and drawing drew m...

My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.

Jacob Epstein 10 quotes

I cannot recall a period when ...

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 indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.

Jacob Epstein 10 quotes

A wife, a lover, can perhaps n...

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 10 quotes

To accuse me of making sensati...

To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.

Jacob Epstein 10 quotes

There are infinite modes of ex...

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.

Jacob Epstein 10 quotes

The artist who imagines that h...

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 himself, will have some bitter experiences.

Jacob Epstein 10 quotes

When I was doing Professor Alb...

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 relativity in a book. 'Were I wrong,' he said, 'one professor would have been enough.

Jacob Epstein 10 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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