More quotes by Emile Zola

"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 artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
"The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it."
"Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest."