Camille Claudel



Camille Claudel (8 December 1864 – 19 October 1943) was a French sculptor and graphic artist.

Quotes

 * Il y a toujours quelque chose d’absent qui me tourmente.
 * There is always something missing that torments me.
 * Letter (1886) to Auguste Rodin, quoted on a plaque at 19 Quai de Bourbon, Paris, where Claudel lived and worked from 1899 to 1913

Quotes about Camille Claudel

 * The different scales, the different modes of plasticity, and gender-representation, of the three figures which make up this important group [her sculpture 'The Mature Age', commissioned in 1895, exhibited in plaster in 1899 and cast in bronze in 1902] enable a more universal thematic and metaphoric stylistics related to the ages of existence, childhood, maturity, and the perspective of the transcendent.
 * Angela Ryan in Camille Claudel: the Artist as Heroinic Rhetorician, Irish Women's Studies Review Vol 8: Making a Difference: Women and the Creative Arts. (December 2002): 13-28