Bird Quote by Will Cuppy

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

— Barnett Newman

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

— Barnett Newman

“[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,”

— Ross Wetzsteon

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

— Georges Cuvier

Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds.

— Yuja Wang

“But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to seek, to…

— Kenn Kaufman

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.

— Konrad Lorenz

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology, and sought only new…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Where did you hide your Mockingbirds?" he asks. "Ornithology," she replies. "You hid TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD with the bird books?" I ask. Elena…

— Paul Acampora

“Facts swooped like swallows, darting across her mind; there was a rush of pride in things still remembered. Singing was limited to the perching…

— Tracy Guzeman

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

— Anonymous

I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.

— Evita Peron

“Be a sparrow, I told myself. Be silent and fly away. No one will bother you if you disappear.”

— Laura Whitcomb

My sparrow, she flickers and wakes and sings and sings.

— Lisa Ann Sandell