I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
EMILE ZOLAI do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
EMILE ZOLAOh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
EMILE ZOLAThey talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things. They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
EMILE ZOLAIn my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
EMILE ZOLAHas science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
EMILE ZOLAI am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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 ZOLAIf 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.
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 ZOLAIn Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
EMILE ZOLANothing develops intelligence like travel.
EMILE ZOLAThese young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
EMILE ZOLAIf people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
EMILE ZOLAThere are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
EMILE ZOLAArt is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
EMILE ZOLADon’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
EMILE ZOLA