The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is…

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

— Emile Zola

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree…

— Leonard Bernstein

An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.

— Eric Cantona

It's a gift that we get to do the work that we do to call ourselves artists.

— Rodney Crowell

It's a real gift to work with my sister. We obviously have such a shorthand communicating with each other that it makes the process…

— Jennifer Todd

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at…

— Erykah Badu

“The art is nothing without the gift. But the gift is nothing without work.”

— Oscar Wilde

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

— Peter Garrett

“Its motto, from Figaro’s monologue in the final act of Le Mariage de Figaro, was Sans la liberté de blâmer, il n’est point d’éloge…

— Susan Elia MacNeal

Twitter reminds me of an era in French literature - Emile Zola and Honoré de Balzac - and the beginning of modernity and gossip.…

— Kim Gordon

“Emily Zola.That's only the second woman I've seen down here. What's up with that?" But before St. Clair can answer, the grating voice says,…

— Stephanie Perkins

“In one of Mary’s apparitions to Bernadette, Our Lady asked her to dig in the dirt. As she dug, a spring trickled through the…

— Carrie Gress

“If you shut up the truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow and gather to itself such explosive power that…

— Tyler Hamilton

I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of humor. Humor…

— Mark Kurlansky

Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of…

— Howard Gardner