Camille Claudel Quotes

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

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• 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 hope!

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• You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.

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• You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.

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• 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.

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• Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

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

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

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• Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin’s Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.

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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.

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

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• 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.

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• I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort… rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.

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• 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.

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• I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire… that’s the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

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

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• 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.

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• I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don’t deceive me with other women any more.

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

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

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Camille Claudel (26)

Birth:	8th December, 1864
Death:	19th October, 1943
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Sculptor

About

Camille Claudel was born in Fère-en-Tardenois, Aisne, France. She  was a French sculptor and graphic artist. Fascinated with stone and soil as a child, as a young woman she studied at the Académie Colarossi with sculptor Alfred Boucher. In 1882, Claudel rented a workshop with other young women, mostly English, including Jessie Lipscomb. Alfred Boucher became her mentor and provided inspiration and encouragement to the next generation of sculptors such as Laure Coutan and Claudel.

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