Classic Quotations from The Art of Travel

The Art of Travel

In study, work and even life, many people are familiar with some widely circulated quotations, which refer to a person's speech record. What are those widely used quotations like? The following is a complete collection of classic quotations from The Art of Travel, which I collected for you. Welcome to read it. I hope you will like it.

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Classic Quotations from "The Art of Travel" Real life is just like a long film, and our memories and expectations are just to choose the wonderful pictures.

-Alain de Botton's The Art of Traveling

The only reason why human beings are unhappy is that they don't know how to stay quietly in his room

He looks at the sofa with the eyes of travelers and rediscovers some of his characteristics

Perhaps the pleasure we get from traveling depends more on our mood when traveling than on the destination itself.

what is the mood of travel? Perception is perhaps its most important feature. We approach the new place with humility. We have no preconceptions about what is interesting.

-The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton

"What is really precious is what you think and see, not speed. Bullets flying too fast is not a good thing; A person, if he is really a person, walking slowly is harmless; Because his glory lies not in walking at all, but in personal experience. "

-Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel

The Old Soul in the Cave of the Big Banyan Tree: Memory, like expectation, is a tool to simplify and edit reality. The present life is just like a long film intertwined, and our memories and expectations are just to choose the wonderful pictures.

-The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton

Perhaps the pleasure we get from traveling depends more on our mood when traveling than on the destination itself. Traveling alone seems to have an advantage. Our view of the world is usually greatly influenced by people around us, and we reconcile our thirst for knowledge to meet the expectations of others. They may have decided who we are, so we have to consciously hide something about ourselves. "I didn't expect you to be the kind of person who is interested in highway bridges. "They may express their opinions in a tone that makes you uncomfortable.

-Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel

Nature can let people know our inner mind, it is quiet and beautiful, and it brings us lofty ideas. No matter evil words, prejudice, selfish contempt, unkind greetings and indifferent human feelings in daily life, it can't defeat us or deprive us of this happy belief. What you see in your eyes is full of God's gifts.

-The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton

At the moment when we meet beauty, we will have a strong impulse, that is, a desire to hold on to it: take it for ourselves and make it an important part of our lives. We have an urgent desire to express: "I was here, I saw it, and it is very important to me."

-Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel

"Real life is like a hospital, and everyone is tired of changing their beds. Some people like beds near radiators, while others like windows. "

-Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel

Taking photos can slightly satisfy the desire for possession, which is aroused by the beauty of a place; Our anxiety about losing a precious picture will gradually disappear with every flashing of the shutter.

—— The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton

Traveling alone seems to have an advantage. Our view of the world is usually greatly influenced by the people around us, and we reconcile our thirst for knowledge to meet the expectations of others. They may have decided who we are, so we have to consciously hide something from ourselves. "I didn't expect you to be the kind of person who is interested in roads and bridges," they may express their views in a tone that makes you uncomfortable. Being closely observed by a companion will prevent us from observing others, and we are busy looking more normal, which affects our thirst for knowledge.

—— Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel

What does it just mean to gain from travel in order to enrich life? Nietzsche offered some suggestions. He imagined that there was such a person who was frustrated with the present situation of German culture and any attempt to improve it. This man went to a city in Italy, such as Siena or Florence, and found the well-known "Italian Renaissance" only because of the efforts of several Italians. With luck, perseverance and proper sponsors, they changed the social fashion and value orientation of this song.

-The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton

We see stars and waves; We also saw the beach; Although there are many troubles and sudden disasters, like here, we always feel bored. -Baudelaire's Journey "For me, I always hope that I am in a place other than my current residence, so going to another place is always a happy thing for me." "Anywhere! Anywhere! As long as it is outside my present world! " Train, let me go with you! Ship, get me out of here! Take me away, far away. Here, the soil is full of tears!

—— Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel

City people have no definite opinions, and they only listen to hearsay and echo others' opinions on the street or at the dinner table. Although they live comfortably, they never give up chasing new things, even if they lack nothing, and happiness has nothing to do with what they want to chase.

-Alain de Botton's The Art of Traveling

Powerful but despicable things make people feel humiliated, but powerful and noble things make us awe.

Shame is the eternal crisis of mankind. Our will is often disobeyed and our wishes are often blocked. The lofty landscape will not directly reveal our shortcomings. Their attraction lies in providing us with a novel and effective way to face the shortcomings we are willing to be familiar with. The magnificent scenery repeats the lessons that daily life often teaches us in a magnificent way: the universe is powerful and human beings are fragile; Human life is fragile and short;

-Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel

Flaubert's definition of the motherland In Flaubert's view, a person's nationality should depend on the place he likes. "For me, the motherland is a country I love, in other words, a country that gives me dreams and makes me comfortable."

—— The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton

It is much easier to find valuable factors in artistic works and expectations than in real life. Expectation and artistic imagination omit, compress or even cut off the boring periods in life, and direct our attention to the wonderful hours in life without retouching or faking. As a result, the life charm they show is vivid and orderly. This kind of charm and order can't be presented in our chaotic real life. Memory, like expectation, is a tool to simplify and edit reality.

-Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel

Only if you swallow a toad in the morning can you ensure that you won't encounter more disgusting things all day

-Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel

Everyone loves beauty, but the so-called "love" itself is very complicated, and the proposition itself is not so simple. Only the beauty in travel, Alan said that love is possession, taking photos, signing in, buying souvenirs, painting and writing, not stopping at the contact provided by technology, but really entering but having beauty or appreciating beauty. However, step by step, the painting method he advocated disassembled the scene in front of him, including light and shade, color, size, angle and composition. In the process of reconstruction, he turned from loose observation to another position, gained a deep understanding of the components, and then gained a deeper memory about beauty.

-The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton

The smallest part of nature is infinite.

-The Art of Travel by Alan Deberton

There are several frozen points in our lives, which make us feel refreshed when we are in trouble and permeate our whole body, and make us climb constantly. When we are at a high place, it inspires us to climb higher, and when we fall, it inspires us to stand up again

-The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton

Nature will guide us to look for "all the beautiful and kind things that exist" from life and each other, which is naturally "the image of beautiful ideas" and has the function of correcting distorted and abnormal urban life.

-Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel

Nietzsche: "Realist painter is completely loyal to nature"-The big lie: How can nature be confined to a painting? The smallest part of nature is infinite! So he just drew what he liked. So what does he like? He likes what he can draw! " Painters are not simply reappearing, they choose and emphasize, and at the same time they are committed to expressing the truth in their eyes, which deserves sincere applause. We found many things. At first, the picture on the canvas made us feel happy, and then we liked them in the place depicted in the painting.

-Alain de Botton's The Art of Traveling

One of the dangers of traveling is that we can't wait to go sightseeing before we have accumulated and possessed the required acceptance ability, resulting in the wrong timing. Just like the lack of a chain to string beads into a necklace, the new information we accept will become worthless and disorganized.

-The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton

The key factor of happiness is not material or aesthetic, but always psychological.

-The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton

What a person gets from traveling is not how many beautiful places he has visited, but how many beautiful stories he has found in one place.

-Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel

But beauty is short-lived, and it is often found in places where we never see each other again, or a meeting scene that can only be formed under certain seasons, light and weather conditions.

-Alain de Botton's The Art of Traveling

Bad art can be defined as the result of a series of wrong choices, which are not shown, but what is omitted is shown again.

-Alain de Botton's The Art of Traveling

The only reason why man is unhappy is that he doesn't know how to stay quietly in his room.

-Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel, The Art of Travel 2

1. Painting can teach us to observe: not to glance at it, but to pay attention. In the process of recreating the scene in front of us with our hands, we seem to naturally shift from a loose position to another position where we can gain a deep understanding of the components of beauty and then gain a deeper memory about beauty.

2. Various phenomena in nature, including birds, streams, daffodils and sheep, are indispensable, because they can correct and treat the troubled hearts of urban people.

3. I forced myself to follow a special spiritual command: look around me as if I had never been here before. Slowly, my trip began to pay off.

4. The love of painting stems from a desire. "Not for fame, not for serving others, not for yourself, but from an instinct like eating or drinking. "Painting, eating and drinking water can be compared because they all involve absorbing good elements from this world and importing good things.

5. Users don't regard photography as a supplement to active and conscious observation. On the contrary, they regard it as a substitute, thinking that as long as they have a photo, they can grasp a part of the world.

6. Painters don't simply reproduce, they choose and emphasize, and at the same time, they are committed to expressing the truth in their eyes, which deserves sincere applause.

7. Before Whistler painted the fog in London, there was no fog in London. Before Van Gogh painted the cypresses in Provence, there must have been many fewer cypresses in Provence.

8. The night is even more colorful than the day ... Only when you pay attention to it, you will see that some stars are pale yellow, while others have a pink glow, or glow with green, blue and forget-me-not. Needless to say, it is obviously not enough to put white dots on a blue-black background.

9. Ruskin told us, "I would rather teach my students to paint, so that they can learn to love nature, rather than teach them to stare at nature, so that they can learn how to paint."

1. Why does Flaubert appreciate camels so much? An important reason is that he agrees with the camel's calm, tough and simple nature. He was moved by the sad expression of the camel and the fatalistic survival ability revealed in its simplicity. There seems to be a camel in the nature of the Egyptians: they show courage and humility in silence.

11. Another benefit we may get from painting is that we can have a clear understanding of the deep-seated reasons why some landscapes and buildings attract us.

12. Living in the city with the mentality of traveling.

13. instead of trying to accurately reproduce the picture displayed in front of me, I prefer to use colors at will in order to express myself powerfully.

14. Some people know how to make use of their ordinary experiences in daily life to make themselves fertile ground. When we observe all this, we will classify people into two categories: one can turn decay into magic, and the other can turn magic into decay. Most people are the latter, while the former is few.

15. The exoticism we find in a foreign country may be what we have suffered in our own country.

in 16 and XXXX, I sincerely like to stay with the osmanthus trees in my yard.

17. Let's pay attention to what we have seen before going far away.

18. My goal is not to turn a craftsman into an artist, but to make him a happier carpenter.

19. If you can't enjoy the loneliness of the journey like edward hopper, experience the ups and downs like Flaubert, have a strong yearning for the East, and have a curiosity for scientific inquiry and a rich knowledge reserve like alexander von humboldt, if you don't have much appreciation for beauty and art, then think twice about traveling, or have a bedroom stroll?

2. Just like seeing the cypress trees painted by Van Gogh, we know how to appreciate cypress trees better.

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