"Yet the deeper distinction of this artist may lie in the kaleidoscopic variety of his sculptures--in the way, as it were, he gets into the skins of so many different people at that cocktail party. From one piece to the next, King is a naturalistic observer and a satirist, an expressionist and a social critic, and, amazingly, he makes all his phases cohere as the workings of one man's mind."

- Sanford Schwartz, "The Early Work of William King"