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...Cezanne's anxiety that is so interesting. But not only the anxiety. There are anxious mediocrities too. It's the achievement that counts. If Cezanne was not a heroic painter, the word means nothing. This was evident to some of his friends and contemporaries, such as Emile Zola. They saw, as later generations have seen, that his painting was also a moral struggle, in which the search for identity fused with the desire to make the strongest possible images of the Other--Nature--under the continuous inspiration and admonishment of an art tradition that he revered. He compared himself...
...father was a laborer who became a hatter and, eventually, a banker, thus securing his son from money worries. From 1852 to 1858 young Cezanne studied humanities at the College Bourbon in Aix, where he met the future writer who was to be his lifetime friend, Zola. Then he studied law for a while, but under Zola's constant prodding he turned to painting. By 1861 both young men were in Paris...
Nelson closed off with a quote from writer Emile Zola: "If you ask me what I came into this world to do I will tell you: I came to live out loud...
...Zola C. Williams '97 said she believes that successful minority adults can serve as role models for minority children, adding that as a minority at Harvard she herself is such a role model...
...Zola B. Mashariki, a first-year law student, said that after seeing her parents battle for civil rights and her brother struggling through a Brooklyn high school, she felt indebted to use her education to help the Black community...