"It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel."

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"With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as the temptation to read promiscuously, omnivorously and without purpose. From time to time, it is true, I make a desperate resolution to mend my ways. I sketch out programmes of useful, serious reading; I try to turn my rambling voyages into systematic tours through the history of art and civilization. But without much success. After a little I relapse into my old bad ways. Deplorable weakness! I try to comfort myself with the hope that even my vices may be of some profit to me."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Travel, Vice, Books, Knowledge

"Travelers never think that they are the foreigners."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Travel, Foreigners

"Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart."

Tahir Shah, British Author

Travel, Solitude, Reflection, Loneliness

"Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

Travel, Impermanence, Pessimism, Time

"We are all pilgrims who seek Italy."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Travel, Journey, Italy, Seeking

"The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

Travel, Expectation, Fatigue, Reality

"I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it."

Charlotte Eriksson, American Psychologist

Travel, Adventure, Life, Discovery, Perspective

"I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Travel, Cities, World, Freedom, Adventure

"As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed."

Tahir Shah, British Author

Travel, Culture, Adaptation, Observation

"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

Travel, Purpose, Now

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"Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world."

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"Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel."

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"One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs."

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"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."

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"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

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"Travelers never think that they are the foreigners."

"Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can."

"We are all pilgrims who seek Italy."

"The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it."

"I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it."

"I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side."

"As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed."

"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."

Explore more quotes by Robert Hughes

"Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world."

"Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel."

"Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius."

"One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs."

"The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive."

"It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope."

"Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art."

"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

"It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel."