Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Camille Claudel Quotes. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
1
My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
2
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.
3
I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
4
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.
5
If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
6
I tolerate my faults but not at all other people’s.
7
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!
8
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.
9
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.
10
Don’t fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.
11
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.
12
I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and… stay there.
13
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.
14
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.
15
Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
