Occupation: Writer Birth: June 17, 1880 Death: December 21, 1964
The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city..
Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?.
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..
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….
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 w….
One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art..
Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats..
Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice..
Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness..
A cat is never vulgar..
...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 relat….
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 ….
The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life..
Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops..
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..
A thing of beauty is a boy forever..