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.
– Emile Zola
In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
– Emile Zola
One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
– Emile Zola
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
– Emile Zola
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
– Emile 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.
– Emile Zola
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
– Emile Zola
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
– 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.