A true masterpiece doesn't tell you everything.Émile Zola
The ugly may be beautiful; the pretty, never.Émile Zola
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.Émile Zola
Art, my friend, is practice. Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.Émile Zola
He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,… the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.Émile Zola
It is man who is the god of art. A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.Émile Zola
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.Émile Zola
Art is a corner of nature as seen through a temperament.Émile Zola
I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.Émile Zola
So it is that life is not all beer and skittles.Émile Zola
Genius is but a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.Émile Zola
In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.Émile Zola
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.Émile Zola
I am here to live out loud.Émile Zola
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.Émile Zola