Camille Claudel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Dream #World #Strange
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

#Character #Devil #Mood
Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.
-- Camille Claudel

#House #Suffering #Purpose
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.
-- Camille Claudel

#Believe #Sleep #Naked
I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
-- Camille Claudel

#People #Faults #Tolerate
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-- Camille Claudel

#Say Anything #Want #Harm
Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.
-- Camille Claudel

#Letters
I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
-- Camille Claudel

#Problem #Discouraged #Feels
My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
-- Camille Claudel

#Republic #Towns #Fountain
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.
-- Camille Claudel

#Men #Hatred #Black
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.
-- Camille Claudel

#Successful #Effort #Ordinary
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.
-- Camille Claudel

#Italian #Night #Men
Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
-- Camille Claudel

#Paris #Parent #Rodin
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

#Night #Fire #Feelings
I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
-- Camille Claudel

#Two #Paris #New Life
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

#Pennies #Scared #Imagine
Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.
-- Camille Claudel

#Disappear #Hundred #Our Future
There is always something missing that torments me.
-- Camille Claudel

#Missing #Torment
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

#Art #Jobs #Careers
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

#Art #Men #Facts
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.
-- Camille Claudel

#Squash #Fire #Way
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

#Beach #Garden #Ideas
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

#Thank You #Two #President
If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
-- Camille Claudel

#Nice #Promise #Paradise
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

#Beautiful #Eye #Thinking
I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
-- Camille Claudel

#Males #Problem #Individualism

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