Carl Van Vechten
Carl Van Vechten
Carl Van Vechtenwas an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth17 June 1880
CountryUnited States of America
cat rights people
The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
cat imagination people
The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.
two long people
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.
advantage american-writer emulate man single
There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
american-writer kitten
An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
cat vulgar
A cat is never vulgar.
art cat greek
One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.
cat vodka whisky
Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats.
boys forever
A thing of beauty is a boy forever.
cat gnosis degrees
Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.
cat world virtue
Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.
cities paris care
Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.
matisse
I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.
mistake cat making-mistakes
Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.