Émile Zola

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.

THERE ARE TWO MEN INSIDE THE ARTIST, THE POET AND THE CRAFTSMAN. ONE IS BORN A POET. ONE BECOMES A CRAFTSMAN.

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

One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.