I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art, — James Agee Copy Share Image
“To own your life is hardly good Unless you own your livelihood: To own your livelihood's as bad If, in exchange, your… — James Agee Copy Share Image
The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself. — James Agee Copy Share Image
“At moments I wonder whether those who go, as I do, for a Full Life, don't get their exact reward, which is… — James Agee Copy Share Image
I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“She is possibly the last child they will bring into living, and she is extremely delicate. She dislikes what little food they… — James Agee Copy Share Image
How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go… — James Agee Copy Share Image
And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and… — James Agee Copy Share Image
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“A house of simple people which stands empty and silent in the vast Southern country morning sunlight, and everything which on this… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“For one who sets himself to look at all earnestly, at all in purpose toward truth, into the living eyes of a… — james agee Copy Share Image
By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on… — James Agee Copy Share
The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time. — James Agee Copy Share
“Yes, for every child, rich or poor, there's a time of running through a dark place; and there's no word for a child's fear,… — James Agee Copy Share
“Kate, the mother of thirteen, is forty-nine; delicately made; her skin creamlike where the weather has not got at it. She is smaller than… — James Agee Copy Share
“The passion for vengeance is a terrifyingly strong one, very easily and probably inevitably wrought up by such evidence [of atrocities], even at our… — James Agee Copy Share
It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have… — James Agee Copy Share
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook… — James Agee Copy Share
“God is not here, Hannah said to herself; and made a small cross upon her breastbone, against her blasphemy.” — James Agee Copy Share
Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It's nice to learn fast but it's nice to take your time too. — James Agee Copy Share
The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the… — James Agee Copy Share
Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by… — James Agee Copy Share
You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any… — James Agee Copy Share
He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability… — James Agee Copy Share
