Camille Claudel
Camille Claudel
Camille Claudel; 8 December 1864 – 19 October 1943) was a French sculptor and graphic artist. She died in relative obscurity, but subsequently gained recognition for the originality of her work. She was the elder sister of the poet and diplomat Paul Claudel...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth8 November 1864
CityFere-en-Tardenois, France
CountryFrance
thank-you two president
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.
pennies scared imagine
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.
males individualism problem
I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
disappear hundred our-future
Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.
art men generous-man
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.
squash fire hammers
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.
beach garden ideas
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.
house suffering purpose
Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.
republic towns fountain
My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
men generous-man hatred
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.
successful effort cost
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.
night men italian
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.
paris parent rodin
Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
squash studies threw took unpleasant wax
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.