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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Emile Zola

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Emile Zola
Age: 62 †
Born: 1840
Born: January 1
Died: 1902
Died: January 1
Art Critic
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Photographer
Playwright
Poet
Political Journalist
Short Story Writer
Theatre Critic
Paris
France
Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola
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Corners
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Art
Temperament

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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
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