23 Quotes by Carl Van Vechten

Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

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.

The cat seldom interferes with other people’s rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.

I’ve photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.

Well, she said, that picture is the kind of picture that gives pleasure to the kind of people who like that kind of picture.