Émile Zola Quotes
April 2, 1840 – September 29, 1902
More Émile Zola Quotes
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
Émile Zola— Letter to Paul Cézanne (16 April 1860), as published in Paul Cézanne : Letters (1995) edited by John Rewald
One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
Émile Zola— Le Figaro (1881) as quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999) by Elizabeth Knowles and Angela Partington, p. 840
Everything is only a dream.
Émile Zola— Le Rêve [The Dream] (1888)
Paris flared — Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
Émile Zola— Paris (1898) Last of Les Trois Villes [The Three Cities] trilogy
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud!
Émile Zola— As quoted in Writers on Writing? (1986) by Jon Winokur
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Émile Zola— As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing? (2006) by Larry Chang , p. 55
