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.

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.

I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.

The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.

A cat is never vulgar.

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

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