Quotes by Emile Zola

• I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
• If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
• If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
• If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
• In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
• One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
• Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
• The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
• The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
• The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
• The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
• There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
• I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.