If you shut up truth and bury it underground it will but grow.

Author: Emile Zola

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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life struggle intensity.

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

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.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.