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Quotes by
Emile Zola

[1840 – 1902] French writer and amateur photographer

Emile Zola

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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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The artist is nothing without gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola

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In my opinion you cannot say you have thoroughly seen anything until you have got a photograph of it, revealing a lot of points which otherwise would be unnoticed, and which in most cases could not be distinguished.
Emile Zola

in Photo-Miniature no. 21 (December 1900) Cited in "The History of Photography" by Beaumont Newhall, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1964, p. 94.

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A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
Emile Zola

in his Salon of 1866 "Art is nature seen through temperament. Without observation, our art becomes a travesty of Nature." – slightly altered Zola’s phrase by H. Snowden Ward [cited in: "Pictorial Photography in Britain 1900 – 1920", exhibition catalogue, Arts Council of Great Britain in association with The Royal Photographic Society, London 1978, p. 13]

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

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The word realist means nothing to me because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
Emile Zola

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