Camille Claudel Quotes

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.

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.

They try to force me to sculpt here. They don't succeed, so they make trouble for me.

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

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!

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.

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.

I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.