"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." ― Emile Zola Topic(s): Art More From Emile Zola "The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men." "I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity." "If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud." More In Art "Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them."― Blaise Pascal "Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John."― Boris Pasternak "‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’"― W. H. Auden