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
boys forever
A thing of beauty is a boy forever.
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.
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.
mistake cat making-mistakes
Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.
mean cat animal
The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.
cat breathing fur
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.
cat men suffering
...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.
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.
littles pay too-much
Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?