"To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense."
- Erasmus Darwin
"A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin."
"Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment."
"Which is the more beautiful, feline movement or feline stillness?"
- Elizabeth Hamilton
"Cats, like women, should be respected as individuals rather than admired as decoration; but there's no harm, given a choice, in taking up with a strikingly attractive specimen of either."
"It's an honor to paint cats."
- Oliver Johnson
"Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow."
- George F. Will
"Cats only assume their strangest, most intriguing and most beautiful postures when it is impossible to photograph them. Cat calendars always disappoint for they only show the public range of cat positions."
- J. R. Coulson
