Émile Zola by Édouard Manet, 1868
Émile Zola, 1902
“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.”-Émile Zola
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One of my favorite sayings. 🙂 And I do my best to shout.
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Yes you do! We should all try our very best to shout.
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Love this. I would say an artist is also “thinking out loud”.
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I love that thought, and I think it quite correct!
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There’s the string tie again! This calls for an online search.
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Haha, now I will go out of my way to find pics of dead creative types sporting string ties. That should be a tumblr…
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An artist notice’s things – I heard Grayson Perry say this in his BBC Reith Lecture and that is exactly what we do. I love Zola, but it is quite hard to find reasonable translations, I will be reading Germinal for the fourth time soon!
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Definitely! No detail is too odd or too small for us to notice. I love Zola as well, and finding a good translation is always tough. I have a 100+ year old copy of Nana, with the most gorgeous cover illustration.
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