Top 69 Claudel Quotes

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

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #20026
#2. You see that it is not at all like Rodin ... I share these only with you, don't show them.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #23224
#3. Now I know that at the heart of the universe is joy.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #61000
#4. I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #81061
#5. There are two ways to shine: to reflect light or produce it.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #131243
#6. Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #204232
#7. Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its 'manner,' in its process, which are nothing but a participation in and a derivation of actual objects, of the Art of God himself.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #220844
#8. Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #249007
#9. All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #253694
#10. They try to force me to sculpt here. They don't succeed, so they make trouble for me.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #261400
#11. It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #267659
#12. My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward ... Making a film is like cooking a pot au feu. You choose the best carrots, the best potatoes the best meat, etc., and you throw all that together - but if there's no soul, so to speak, it won't yield much.

Philippe Claudel

Claudel Quotes #288392
#13. Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ!

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #297442
#14. You stole it all! My youth, my work! Everything!

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #305755
#15. Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #321490
#16. While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #376246
#17. Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #414225
#18. Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering ... I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #438591
#19. If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #440816
#20. Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #494721
#21. Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #541871
#22. When you live among the flowers, you don't think about the mud.

Philippe Claudel

Claudel Quotes #615890
#23. Fergus Claudel Fraser, he said, slowly and clearly.

Diana Gabaldon

Claudel Quotes #629281
#24. I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and ... stay there.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #632545
#25. Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #644951
#26. I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #732585
#27. I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #755066
#28. I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #777374
#29. It's the comedies and thrillers that are successful. People love horror, but in thrillers. Once you speak of pain and suffering it's a different matter.

Philippe Claudel

Claudel Quotes #862183
#30. I think about the sincerity of my writing. I try to be true, to pose questions. Shake people up a bit and make them look in a direction they wouldn't normally.

Philippe Claudel

Claudel Quotes #887494
#31. My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #890923
#32. We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #900799
#33. You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #965886
#34. I baptize thee, Germain Alexander Claudel MacKenzie Fraser, in the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Amen.

Diana Gabaldon

Claudel Quotes #1003812
#35. 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

Claudel Quotes #1006230
#36. I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1040817
#37. Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1098456
#38. Open your eyes! The world is still intact; it is as pristine as it was on the first day, as fresh as milk!

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1162149
#39. 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

Claudel Quotes #1198346
#40. I'm not imprisoned in any one medium. In films I use techniques that are not necessarily what other directors attempt. When I write novels I also use techniques which can run counter to those that a novelist would use.

Philippe Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1231685
#41. Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.

Philippe Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1244950
#42. In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write a screenplay, the language is just a transition, the final goal is a picture on the screen, it's the only thing the audience sees.

Philippe Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1247456
#43. The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1294808
#44. 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

Claudel Quotes #1296163
#45. How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1366226
#46. When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1367442
#47. An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.

Philippe Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1397803
#48. Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1411260
#49. 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.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1433061
#50. I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1463194
#51. You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1464818
#52. Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology.
Snappy dresser, though.

Kathy Reichs

Claudel Quotes #1527454
#53. The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1529319
#54. Every birth is a getting to know.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1534466
#55. I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.

Philippe Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1539102
#56. 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

Claudel Quotes #1558543
#57. 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

Claudel Quotes #1578199
#58. 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.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1589846
#59. 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

Claudel Quotes #1612836
#60. There is always something missing that torments me.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1690262
#61. It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1703151
#62. In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.

Philippe Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1714369
#63. Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1736504
#64. They shall arrive in a murmur
And shall disappear into fog and earth

Philippe Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1737131
#65. I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1743096
#66. 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

Claudel Quotes #1818466
#67. You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.

Camille Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1853301
#68. The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1865712
#69. In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

Paul Claudel

Claudel Quotes #1877445

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