23 Quotes by Carl Van Vechten

A thing of beauty is a boy forever.

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

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.

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.

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

A cat is never vulgar.

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.