Ossip Zadkine Quote

But Orpheus has always haunted me, and I am not so sure I've exorcised his spell on me. For all I know, I may yet be tempted to try a sixth or a seventh 'Orpheus' in years to come. Besides the scale of each figure makes it necessary to conceive it differently.

Circa 1960. Dialogues – conversations with European Artists at Mid-century, 1990, p. 155