Emile Zola

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

"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."

"The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it."

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

"Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest."