I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.

...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 relationship suffers. 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.

Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

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 will blur the fur in a time exposure.

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

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.