"My drawings at first were made altogether in……" — John James Audubon
"My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish."
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John James Audubon
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61 Quotes by John James Audubon
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
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During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
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Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.
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In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part…
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I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
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Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me…
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
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Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.
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In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same…
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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people…
— Luis Bunuel
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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
— Lord Byron
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words 'large' or 'size' with 'rear end.' Never. Avoid the…
— Tim Allen
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It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not…
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