Emile Zola
Novelist
1840-04-02 – 1902-09-29
Emile Zola was a French novelist, journalist, and leading figure of literary naturalism. He wrote the Rougon-Macquart cycle and became a major public intellectual through his defense of Alfred Dreyfus. His writing and political interventions had lasting influence on modern French culture.
Quotes by Emile Zola
-
In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
Read quote -
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
Read quote -
Vines will be planted, corn will spring up, a whole growth of new crops; and people will still fall in love in vintages and harvests yet to come. Life is eternal; it is a perpetual renewal of birth and growth.
Read quote -
A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
Read quote -
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.
Read quote -
If you ask me what I have come to do in the world, I who am an artist, I will reply: 'I am here to live aloud.'
Read quote -
The vague torment of ... ambition.
Read quote -
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
Read quote -
Truth is on the march; nothing can stop it now.
Read quote