Émile Zola Quotes

April 2, 1840 – September 29, 1902

Émile Zola (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French writer and social activist.

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

As quoted in Dreyfus : His Life and Letters? (1937) edited by Pierre Dreyfus, p. 175

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

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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.

Émile Zola
— Letter to Paul Cézanne (16 April 1860), as published in Paul Cézanne : Letters (1995) edited by John Rewald

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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

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Everything is only a dream.

Émile Zola
— Le Rêve [The Dream] (1888)

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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

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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

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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

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