Quotes by
Emile Zola

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

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

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.

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

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

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.