There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
EMILE ZOLAI am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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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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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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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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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