Carl Van Vechten Quotes

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• Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats.
• ...with a cat you stand on much the same footing that you stand with a fine and dignified friend; if you forfeit his respect and…
• The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.
• Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.
• The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
• One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.
• A cat is never vulgar.
• The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
• The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.
• 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. I…
• A thing of beauty is a boy forever.
• Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.
• Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?
• Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.
• I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.
• Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.
• There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is…
• There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
• An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

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