Living in the city Quotes by Carl Van Vechten

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

Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

— Carl Van Vechten

Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

— Carl Van Vechten

I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.

— Carl Van Vechten

There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.

— Carl Van Vechten

A cat is never vulgar.

— Carl Van Vechten

The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.

— Carl Van Vechten

Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats.

— Carl Van Vechten

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

Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.

— Carl Van Vechten

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

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