James Agate: Likeness

James Agate was British diarist and critic. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

James Agate: 18 quotes1 like

“I like listening to it just as I like looking at a fuchsia drenched with rain.”

Ego 8 (1947), p. 255, November 25, 1945
Of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.

“Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If he can't pretend that, he will look through the object, or round it, or above it or below it, or in any direction except into it. If, however, you force him to look into it, he will at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.”

Ego (1935), p. 247, October 14, 1932.

“A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it.”

Ego, p. 303, September 17, 1933.