Camille Claudel quote: "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."

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and ef...
CAMILLE CLAUDEL

It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are in...
CAMILLE CLAUDEL

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest ple...
CAMILLE CLAUDEL

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

I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have ...
CAMILLE CLAUDEL

I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thin...
CAMILLE CLAUDEL

I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
CAMILLE CLAUDEL

I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
CAMILLE CLAUDEL

I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
CAMILLE CLAUDEL

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
CAMILLE CLAUDEL

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and o...
CAMILLE CLAUDEL

I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They sa...
CAMILLE CLAUDEL

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine...
CAMILLE CLAUDEL

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant one...
CAMILLE CLAUDEL

I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life...
CAMILLE CLAUDEL

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

Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Itali...
CAMILLE CLAUDEL

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpl...
CAMILLE CLAUDEL

Intelligence is nothing without delight.
PAUL CLAUDEL

I just want to get a family, get my horses, and chill out.
AURELIE CLAUDEL

[While she was working on] Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he di...
PAUL CLAUDEL

"Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.
PAUL CLAUDEL

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of...
PAUL CLAUDEL

Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something ...
PHILIPPE CLAUDEL

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my s...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
CAMILLE PAGLIA

I went to a Catholic school, so of course we had to wear uniforms. My only form of expression was in...
CAMILLE GUATY

I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at fo...
CAMILLE PISSARRO

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their ti...
CAMILLE PISSARRO

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates o...
CAMILLE PISSARRO

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only va...
CAMILLE PISSARRO

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty...
CAMILLE PISSARRO

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a ...
CAMILLE PISSARRO

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.
CAMILLE PISSARRO

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
CAMILLE PISSARRO

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mist...
CAMILLE PISSARRO

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find yo...
CAMILLE PISSARRO

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.
CAMILLE PISSARRO

Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis......
CAMILLE PISSARRO

It is absurd to look for perfection.
CAMILLE PISSARRO

Paint the essential character of things.
CAMILLE PISSARRO

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover...
CAMILLE PISSARRO

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered reg...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopele...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all ove...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
CAMILLE PAGLIA

I am a very reclusive, private person.
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary ar...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion....
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman&...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.
CAMILLE PAGLIA

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake f...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
CAMILLE PAGLIA

I remember how much fun it was to pick out my lunchbox. My all-time favorite lunch box was from the ...
CAMILLE GUATY

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I had a really bad run. I would sleep in my car during the day ou...
CAMILLE GUATY

I inherited them, so I got it like that. But I hear you can actually get dimples for a certain price...
CAMILLE GUATY

My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. ...
CAMILLE GUATY

I still get the jitters every time I start a new job! I love it - makes you feel alive.
CAMILLE GUATY

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mat...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the u...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me -...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
CAMILLE DESMOULINS

I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the...
CAMILLE DUVALL

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.
CAMILLE DESMOULINS

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
CAMILLE PISSARRO

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserl...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting mode...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilt...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but woul...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style - ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they clai...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Te...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness an...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary sin...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most origin...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in wome...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being arou...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general pub...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the wo...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy a...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
CAMILLE PAGLIA

I wonder why prostitution is illegal
CAMILLE PAGLIA

I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angeli...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie F...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
CAMILLE PAGLIA

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Pr...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

New Orleans has a lot of underutilized space and property. There is a huge opportunity to attract pe...
CAMILLE STRACHAN

The war may be over in terms of any wholesale demolition.
CAMILLE STRACHAN

New Orleans is body and soul. The soul is the people and the body is the architecture, and you can't...
CAMILLE STRACHAN

There's a recognition that the New Orleans housing stock is really pretty sturdy, and there should n...
CAMILLE STRACHAN

I haven't put a number goal (on the campaign), but our goal is to just provide support charitable su...
CAMILLE RAMSEY

I tried to feed off of that, but they hit it into places we couldn't get to and then we started maki...
CAMILLE RAMSEY

We're still so happy that we won, but it didn't even hit me that we're going downstate until (Tuesda...
CAMILLE RAMSEY

I love to go out there and look at those bricks and imagine the stories behind them. There are brick...
CAMILLE RAMSEY

I haven't put a number goal (on the campaign), but our goal is to just provide support ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢�...
CAMILLE RAMSEY

It's a win-win. It's a way for people to support their community hospital, support St. Luke's while ...
CAMILLE RAMSEY

I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty,...
CAMILLE PISSARRO

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's...
CAMILLE PISSARRO

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes...
CAMILLE PISSARRO

By Jove we were inseparable.
CAMILLE PISSARRO

She was my double partner, but we never played against each other. I'd not seen her that much.
CAMILLE PIN

It is a bit tough to get back into the match after two days of rest. It was tough to make my body wa...
CAMILLE PIN

I was afraid I would be a bit out of shape for the match but it (fatigue) did not come my way.
CAMILLE PIN

Initially, I was trying to stand close to the baseline, and was making mistakes.
CAMILLE PIN

I enjoyed playing here.It was a good atmosphere. I am playing in India for the first time.I was focu...
CAMILLE PIN

I felt tired after a tough second-round match yesterday, so I tried to make her run around the court...
CAMILLE PIN

We're definitely seeing species going extinct because of climate change. We're going to lose the pen...
CAMILLE PARMESAN

I hear this all the time.
CAMILLE PARMESAN

They cannot handle a freeze. It's very bizarre to be seeing them up in Texas.
CAMILLE PARMESAN

This is what has conservation biologists worried. It's the combined effects of climate change pushin...
CAMILLE PARMESAN

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
CAMILLE PAGLIA

A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revo...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, t...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not b...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always ex...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family....
CAMILLE PAGLIA

He's like my brother. It's great to have him here with me. All the guys on the team are important to...
CAMILLE MOUTE

I would like that. That sounds good to me.
CAMILLE MOUTE

You see other people with their families after the games, and you wish you could have that. So I tur...
CAMILLE MOUTE

Oh, it's better than chicken.
CAMILLE MOUTE

I definitely want to return to Cameroon. Cameroon is home to me. If my dad were to choose me as his ...
CAMILLE MOUTE

It was my idea to come to America. It was a tough decision. I had to give up my friends and family, ...
CAMILLE MOUTE

I heard there's some place in LA, but I haven't had time to go out and look for it.
CAMILLE MOUTE

He goes to the village every weekend, making sure everything is going all right, there's no problem ...
CAMILLE MOUTE

Leaving my hometown and my family was very hard.
CAMILLE MOUTE

I knew I had to come to the States. My dad told me that a man has to do what a man has to do, and I ...
CAMILLE MOUTE

I've been hearing a little bit here and there that some students are showing more interest now than ...
CAMILLE LUCKENBAUGH

That's the list we've been seeing for the past three to four years. These are the ones that are most...
CAMILLE LUCKENBAUGH

It's kind of like if you're speeding at 100 miles an hour and you slow down to 80. You're still spee...
CAMILLE LUCKENBAUGH

When employers are looking at job candidate, work experience is one of the things they look for. Emp...
CAMILLE LUCKENBAUGH

Graduates who haven't received full-time job offers are looking for other things like part-time empl...
CAMILLE LUCKENBAUGH

I don't know. I'm not telling -- it's going to be a lot of people. It might be five-on-one, you neve...
CAMILLE LITTLE

I think we did pretty good. Our defensive intensity was great at the start of the first half. We jus...
CAMILLE LITTLE

I think we've played a lot better before. We got out-rebounded again today. This was definitely not ...
CAMILLE LITTLE

I forgot it. I'm happy and excited. I'm honored to have my name in the books with some other great p...
CAMILLE LITTLE

Remembering that we lost to Maryland before was pressure on us.
CAMILLE LITTLE

It gave us momentum going into halftime. It gave us a positive edge coming back out.
CAMILLE LITTLE

We're definitely not a perfect team. We can make better choices in the half-court offense, execute b...
CAMILLE LITTLE

I think for us, we kind of relaxed when we shouldn't have. The game was definitely not over. The fir...
CAMILLE LITTLE

That pumps us up. That helps us play better, I think. It helped us out.
CAMILLE LITTLE

We stayed tight with each other, we tried to be confident and positive. We knew that we could come b...
CAMILLE LITTLE

If you don't take care of your shoes, that's a good sign that you don't take care of your business.
CAMILLE LAVINGTON

You can pace yourself if you know how much time is involved, ... If you can get the other person to ...
CAMILLE LAVINGTON

You can read somebody's attitude - it's either a pleasant attitude or it's a negative one and you ca...
CAMILLE LAVINGTON

You've Only Got 3 Seconds: How to Make the Right Impression in Your Business and Social Life.
CAMILLE LAVINGTON

We don't want anything against the Syrian people,
CAMILLE CHAMOUN

We are asking for Syrian withdrawal,
CAMILLE CHAMOUN

The free world is really helping Lebanon restore its sovereignty. I imagine there is quite a bit of ...
CAMILLE CHAMOUN

We are not a nation that likes war. We just want everybody to be on his own side.
CAMILLE CHAMOUN

It's unfortunate these members put the party in this situation.
CAMILLE ANDERSON

We're confident that Floridians support our positions and that's been reflected in our fund raising.
CAMILLE ANDERSON

This should not have been reported as an in-kind contribution. The party will pay for the costs incu...
CAMILLE ANDERSON

This should not have been reported as an in kind contribution and it's unfortunate that these member...
CAMILLE ANDERSON

This should not have been reported as an in kind contribution, and it's unfortunate that these membe...
CAMILLE ANDERSON

The Florida Republican Party spends its money on campaigns and getting new local candidates elected,...
CAMILLE ANDERSON

It's some pretty good spin on some very hard numbers if you look at them over time.
CAMILLE ANDERSON

We strongly encourage organizations to promote the Republican message of freedom, security and conti...
CAMILLE ANDERSON

While the president's focus is on defending America it seems New York's junior senator remains dedic...
CAMILLE ANDERSON

Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherd...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way....
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist
CAMILLE PAGLIA

The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against th...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend m...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

99 JAMZ and Papa Keith on the Beat are playing it [locally], it's slowly climbing on countdowns in C...
CAMILLE SMITH

Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - whi...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and se...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

There was a lot of pressure on us remembering we had lost Maryland before.
CAMILLE LITTLE

If you don't embrace the consensus, your career stops in its tracks. I had a woman call me from the ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

I've been overusing my voice.
CAMILLE PAGLIA

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and inte...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Like Picasso. Because he was mean to his girlfriend, he was not a great artist?
CAMILLE PAGLIA

I don't remember the fat women. Can we leave the fat women out of this? Excuse me, I have to go to t...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
CAMILLE PAGLIA

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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Camille Claudel

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.

Camille Claudel

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