Carl Van Vechten famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Cat #Rights #People
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

#Inspiration #Cat #Thinking
...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 confidence the relationship suffers. 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

#Cat #Men #Suffering
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

#Cat #Men #Remember
Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.
-- Carl Van Vechten

#Cities #Paris #Care
I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.
-- Carl Van Vechten

#Matisse
Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.
-- Carl Van Vechten

#Mistake #Cat #Making Mistakes
Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.
-- Carl Van Vechten

#Cat #Gnosis #Degrees
A thing of beauty is a boy forever.
-- Carl Van Vechten

#Boys #Forever
Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?
-- Carl Van Vechten

#Littles #Pay #Too Much
The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming ***** is almost beyond credence.
-- Carl Van Vechten

#Cat #People #Imagination
A cat is never vulgar.
-- Carl Van Vechten

#Cat #Vulgar
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

#Art #Cat #Greek
Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats.
-- Carl Van Vechten

#Cat #Vodka #Whisky
Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.
-- Carl Van Vechten

#Cat #World #Cleanliness
The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.
-- Carl Van Vechten

#Mean #Cat #Animal
There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.
-- Carl Van Vechten

#Two #Long #People

You may also like:

Alain LeRoy Locke
Writer
Alice B. Toklas
Author
Anatole France
Poet
Anna May Wong
Movie star
Arna Bontemps
Poet
Bessie Smith
Singer
Billie Holiday
Singer
Claude McKay
Writer
Countee Cullen
Poet
Gertrude Stein
Writer
James Van Der Zee
Photographer
James Weldon Johnson
Author
Jean Toomer
Poet
Langston Hughes
Poet
Man Ray
Artist
Nella Larsen
Novelist
Pearl Bailey
Actress
W. E. B. Du Bois
Historian
Wallace Thurman
Novelist
Zora Neale Hurston
Anthropologist