Camille Claudel

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

#bohemia #cost #effort #here #huge

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

#force #get #his #his way #i

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

— Camille Claudel

#commissioned #countrymen #fountain #native #placed

Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#disappear #francs #future #hundred #i

Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#committed #convinced #me #parents #paris

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

#everywhere #felt #garden #get #had

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

— Camille Claudel

#excuse #find #i #marble #me

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

— Camille Claudel

#like #only #rodin #see #share

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

#fire #hammer #happens #i #me