Quotes by Camille Claudel

About Camille Claudel:

Camille Claudel was a French sculptor and graphic artist. She was the elder sister of the poet and diplomat Paul Claudel.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

Camille Claudel

I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.

Camille Claudel

I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.

Camille Claudel

You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any ...

Camille Claudel

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

Camille Claudel

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

Camille Claudel

Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

Camille Claudel

I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.

Camille Claudel

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

Camille Claudel

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

Camille Claudel

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

Camille Claudel

When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.

Camille Claudel

I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.

Camille Claudel

I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

Camille Claudel

If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

Camille Claudel

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

Camille Claudel

I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!

Camille Claudel

You see that it is not at all like Rodin... I share these only with you, don't show them.

Camille Claudel

I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.

Camille Claudel

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

Camille Claudel

Author Bio

  • NameCamille Claudel
  • DescriptionFrench sculptor and graphic artist
  • BornDecember 8, 1864
  • DiedOctober 19, 1943
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionSculptor
  • Works; The Mature Age;