A cat is never vulgar.

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.

I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.

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

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.

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

One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.