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

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

从书房里被撕下来就像死了一样;我的时间完全被艺术占据了。

-- John James Audubon 约翰·詹姆斯·奥杜邦