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last updated: November 28, 2023

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

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I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.
-- Constantin Brancusi

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You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.
-- Roger Vadim

Source : "Roger Vadim dies". The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2000.

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“About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting.”
“I just keep making things, and whatever happens, happens.”

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“You have to feel your own personal truth with a little â€˜tâ€™ â€“ your sadness, rage, frustration for example -- in order to get to the Truth with a big â€˜Tâ€™.”
“Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.”
“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”
“I give myself strength by staying away from any music.”
“Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.”
“The center of life is female - we all come from our mothers. I've always drawn women or female spirits. I feel deeply about this - who gives a damn about some guy on a cross? My mother's creativity was smothered after she married and raised a family, but she was supportive of me - even my father expected me to carry on in her footsteps. I prefer to have no kids but lots of animals.”
“Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.”
“Vanity is the quicksand of reason.”