James Agee Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is

  James Agee

  Effort, Radiance, Consciousness

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into science, or digestion into art, but with the whole of consciousness, seeking to perceive it as it stands: so that the aspect of a street in sunlight can roar in the heart of itself as a symphony, perhaps as no symphony can: and all of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiation of what is.

  James Agee

  Art, Symphony, Effort

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

  James Agee

  Cameras, Next, Consciousness

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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