Top 18 Carl Van Vechten Quotes
#1. Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.
Carl Van Vechten
#2. Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?
Carl Van Vechten
#5. There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
Carl Van Vechten
#6. 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
#7. Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.
Carl Van Vechten
#9. 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
#11. 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
#12. The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.
Carl Van Vechten
#13. 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 do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
Carl Van Vechten
#14. Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.
Carl Van Vechten
#15. The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.
Carl Van Vechten
#16. Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.
Carl Van Vechten
#17. One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art ... curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.
Carl Van Vechten
#18. An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
Carl Van Vechten
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