"There are two men inside the artist, the……" — Emile Zola

"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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56 Quotes by Emile Zola

Emile Zola has 56 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything…
One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we…
Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts…
Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not…
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile…
They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions…
It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went…
Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why…
When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some…

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More Artist Quotes

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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