Will Art Talent France sculptor My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town. - Camille Claudel
You see that it is not at all like Rodin... I share these only with you, don't show them. - Camille Claudel
Fire 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
Bed Feeling 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! - Camille Claudel
Months Care Years 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! - Camille Claudel
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. - Arthur Schopenhauer
The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you. - Francois Rabelais