Emile Zola Art Quotations

The conclusion does not belong to the artist.

Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.

They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.

If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.

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