"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." ― Emile Zola Topic(s): Art More From Emile Zola "The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it." "If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud." "I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity." More In Art "The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."― Novalis "Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."― Socrates "The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract."― Ellen Key