The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.

- 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. I do not …

- Carl Van Vechten

Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.

- Carl Van Vechten

Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats.

- Carl Van Vechten

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

- 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 is the irony of life that…

- Carl Van Vechten

I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.

- Carl Van Vechten

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

- Carl Van Vechten

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