Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
EMILE ZOLASince the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
More Emile Zola Quotes
-
-
I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
EMILE ZOLA -
A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
EMILE ZOLA -
Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
EMILE ZOLA -
When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.
EMILE ZOLA -
Lovers are made by a kiss.
EMILE ZOLA -
What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
EMILE ZOLA -
A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
EMILE ZOLA -
Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
EMILE ZOLA -
The vague torment of ambition.
EMILE ZOLA -
The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
EMILE ZOLA -
Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
EMILE ZOLA -
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
EMILE ZOLA -
Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
EMILE ZOLA -
I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
EMILE ZOLA -
I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
EMILE ZOLA