Artist Quotes by Émile Zola

13 Artist quotes by Émile Zola

Zola frames the artist as a chronicler of society, and these thirteen statements reflect that naturalist drive. The collection offers a straightforward, grounded view of his creative convictions.

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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

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

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“it was in that uncertain state of mind that he began to sketch her face (12)”

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I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.

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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

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“that they were often as thrilled by trash as by an acknowledged masterpiece (32)”

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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

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“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to…

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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…

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“I want to depict the artist's struggle with reality, the sheer effort of creation which goes into every work of art, the…

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“What was Art, after all, if not simply giving out what you have inside you? ... Wasn't a bunch of carrots, yes,…

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“Haven't I told you scores of times, that you're always beginners, and the greatest satisfaction was not in being at the top,…

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If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.

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“vexation, yet filled with unconscious regret for the terrible unknown things that might have, but had not, happened (23)”

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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

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I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe…

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“After a time, she believed in the reality of this comedy”

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“She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't…

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