Saul Steinberg Cat Drawings on Eames Chairs

Photos by Peter Stackpole

Theophile Gautier

"The cat is a dilettante in fur."

Have a Merry Christmas!

© Pusheen

BLACK CAT records

© Miyoko Ihara | Missao & Fukumaru (8)

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© Toru Tanaka

Black cat analogy

Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat.

Metaphysics is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there.

Theology is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there, and shouting "I found it!"

Science is like being in a dark room and looking for a switch. The light will reveal a cat... if there is one.

© Francesca Woodman

Disordered Interior Geometries, 1980-1981
via Foxes in Breeches

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Edward Gorey & Cats

© Josef Koudelka

Jean Burden

“Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.”

© Elliott Erwitt

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Μιχάλης Μένεγος

"Περπατώντας προς την οδό Βαλτετσίου.

Δόξα και τιμή στις γάτες που στέκονται στα περβάζια των παραθύρων με τις κουρτίνες να πέφτουν πίσω τους και παρατηρούν τους διαβάτες σαν θείες του πρώτου ορόφου. Με τη στάση τους σε μπερδεύουν προς στιγμήν: είσαι εσύ το αντικείμενο της παρατήρησης ή εκείνες; Ποιός είναι μέσα και ποιός έξω; Οι γάτες, όπως και να έχει, είναι τα όντα που θυμίζουν τη σχετικότητα των πραγμάτων και την πιθανή ύπαρξη ανώτερης δύναμης. Εκτός και αν είναι οι ίδιες η Ανώτερη Δύναμη."

© Weegee

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Life on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

Collage by Despina Paramani

© Lukas Vasilikos

© Ana Noble

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Ezra Pound | Middle-Aged

"...And so the space
Of my still consciousness
Is full of gilded snow,

The which, no cat has eyes enough
To see the brightness of."

© Sohrab Hura

Thanks to Andres Seoane

© Paul Outerbridge

W. L. George

"Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties."

© Wolf von dem Bussche

The Flirt, portfolio “From the Peaceable Kingdom”, 1972

via Fans in a Flashbulb

© Jason Houge

via Feature Shoot
thanks to Georgia Panakia

Little Tyke, the Compassionate African Lioness & Kitten

Photographer unknown

© Andreas Bruhn

via Foxes in Breeches

Théophile Gautier

“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal - one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”

John Coltrane -The Cats (1957) [Full album]

Ernest Hemingway & Cats | Photos by Torre Johnson

In the Hemingway house the cats roam everywhere, even monopolise the dining table.

Ernest Hemingway and Mary Welsh with one of their many cats, in their garden.

Ernest Hemingway in his sitting room waiting to be served at cocktail hour.

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U.G. Krishnamurti

"The cat just looks at you, and is in a state of choiceless awareness."

© Andrei Tarkovski

Polaroid, 1979-84
via Foxes in Breeches

Charles J. Brady

"The real measure of a day's heat is the length of a sleeping cat."

Laurel Burch

Arab Proverb

"A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope."

1. Puf a Muf - Doma part1

© Gilles Roudiere

Mzeque

Missy Dizick

"Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well."

Pepe Shimada