They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
EMILE ZOLAThey dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
EMILE ZOLAMy fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
EMILE ZOLAArt for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
EMILE ZOLAArt is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
EMILE ZOLABlow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
EMILE ZOLAA new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
EMILE ZOLAHas science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
EMILE ZOLAWhat 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 ZOLAThe conclusion does not belong to the artist.
EMILE ZOLAIn my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
EMILE ZOLAIf people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
EMILE ZOLAThe past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
EMILE ZOLAThe day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
EMILE ZOLATruth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
EMILE ZOLAInability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
EMILE ZOLAIt is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
EMILE ZOLA