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 ZOLAThe day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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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.
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