James Agee Quotes


"You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition."
- James Agee
(Related: Tradition)

"This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky."
- James Agee
(Related: Open, Sky)

"The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes."
- James Agee
(Related: Confusion)

"Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people."
- James Agee
(Related: People, Right)

"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 it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it."
- James Agee
(Related: Lie, Adventure, Luck, Play)

"God doesn't believe in the easy way."
- James Agee
(Related: God)