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Emile Zola Art Quotes - (6 quotes)

Emile Zola - From the Artists category:

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. (Emile Zola)

Emile Zola - From the Beginning category:

-on Edouard Manet...
In beginning a picture, he could never say how it would come out. (Emile Zola)

Emile Zola - From the Criticism category:

-to Camille Pissarro, 1866...
I know that you were admitted [to the Salon] with great difficulty, and I offer my sincere congratulations... You are a great blunderer, Sir - you are an artist that I like. (Emile Zola)

Emile Zola - From the Talent category:

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. (Emile Zola)

Emile Zola - From the Temperament category:

A work of art is a corner of nature seen through a temperament. (Emile Zola)

Emile Zola - From the Work category:

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. (Emile Zola)

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