Camille Claudel

Sculptor

1864-12-08 – 1943-10-19

Camille Claudel was a French sculptor known for her expressionist work and artistic collaboration with Auguste Rodin.

Quotes by Camille Claudel

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.
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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.
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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.
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I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
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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.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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