Note 4. For these and other reasons the cat is also very hard to photograph. The best photographs are instantaneous, as the mere breathing of a cat will blur the fur in a time exposure. — Carl Van Vechten Copy Share Image
The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life. — Carl Van Vechten Copy Share
There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage. — Carl Van Vechten Copy Share
The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence. — Carl Van Vechten Copy Share
There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It… — Carl Van Vechten Copy Share
Note 4. For these and other reasons the cat is also very hard to photograph. The best photographs are instantaneous, as the mere breathing… — Carl Van Vechten Copy Share
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism.… — Carl Van Vechten Copy Share
The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must. — Carl Van Vechten Copy Share
Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty. — Carl Van Vechten Copy Share
