"In ancient times cats were worshipped as Gods, they have not forgotten this." - Unknown
by Norman Lindsay
Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha. - Andrew Lang
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of." - Sir Walter Scott
Artist Austin Osman Spare with his cats.
"If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat." - Mark Twain
"It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see." - Eleanor Farjeon
Artist Edward Gorey with his cats
It is in their eyes that their magic resides.- Arthur Symons
To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.
- Erasmus Darwin
Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.- Desmond Morris
by John Tenniel
Some creative cat-lovers - William Butler Yeats. Edgar Allan Poe. John Lennon. Charles Baudelaire. William S Burroughs. Ernest Hemingway. Charles Dickens. Victor Hugo. Mark Twain. Louis Wain. Ray Bradbury. Edward Gorey. Sir Walter Scott. Edward Lear. Austin Osman Spare. Louis Carroll. Renoir. HG Wells. Thomas Hardy. Frank Zappa. the Bronte sisters. Raymond Chandler. Jean Cocteau. TS Eliot. Matisse. Ravel. Gautier. HP Lovecraft. J.K. Huysmans.
