“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

Autobiography (Fletcher & Sons, Norwich, 1963)

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American-born British sculptor 1880–1959

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