Famous quotes by Emile Zola:
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: "I am here to live out loud"
"I am here to live out loud"
"Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest"
"In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it."
"The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men."
"There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman."
"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."
"One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines."
"'Tis better to plumb the depths of unity than forever scratch the surface of variety"
"I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity."
"The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it."