James Agee

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment...

Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.

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.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass but error is immense.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

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

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.