Chance Quote by James Agee

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

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

— James Agee

“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

“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

“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

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

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

— James Agee

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

“God is not here, Hannah said to herself; and made a small cross upon her breastbone, against her blasphemy.”

— James Agee

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

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

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