If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.
John James AudubonThe best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.
John James AudubonMy drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
John James AudubonTo have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
John James Audubon