John James Audubon Quotes about Art

A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight.

A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight.

John James Audubon

Art, Moon, Bird

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

John James Audubon

Art, Study, Torn

John James Audubon (1831). “Ornithological Biography, Or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America: Accompanied by Descriptions of the Objects Represented in the Work Entitled The Birds of America, and Interspersed with Delineations of American Scenery and Manners”, p.8

Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.

John James Audubon

Art, Powerful, Wish

Robert Buchanan, John James Audubon (2005). “Life and Adventures of Audubon the Naturalist”, p.131, Cosimo, Inc.