Words matter. These are the best Camille Claudel Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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.
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.
I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
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.
I tolerate my faults but not at all other people’s.
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.
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.
If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and… stay there.
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.
Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.
My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
Don’t fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.
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.
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!
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.
