Quotes About Travel

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.

Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from the thirteenth century has never left me.

I'm inspired by being in a different town every day - all the people I meet, all the things I see. There's no way of compartmentalizing everything in my head; whatever I'm taking in is coming out in some way. I think I love painting so much because, for me, it's so fast. There's not too much thought in these paintings.

I have been brought up around art. Even now, when I travel, I love going to museums and spend hours in front of paintings. Art is like oxygen for me. That's what I miss in Bombay.

Outside of white button-down oord cloth shirts, Trickers brogues, 501s, and Ray-Ban Aviators, the single item of clothing that I have had in my closet consistently since 1982 is a pair of black-and-white checked Vans. They are the lazy man's shoe - perfect for dog walking and security lines at the airport.

One time, I was going to be in L.A. for 10 days for a business conference, and I took eight different pairs of sandals.

I start with my shoes - I usually pack two pairs if I'm going away for four or five days, and I'll wear another one.

We boast about Pakistan. We say Pakistan is this and that. But when you go out of the country and the way we are checked, I can't tell you. I feel so humiliated the way I am frisked.

I need a break. I've been working for about a year and a half. I think I'd like to go to Pakistan.

People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.

With Pakistan being in my blood, I would certainly look at opportunities to travel there.

I backpacked around the world and went to places like Mexico City and Pakistan, where I'm like, 'Oh. Things aren't quite as good.'

Italy was where the soul went to find calm and love, and I wanted to hold the best of it in the palm of my hand.

My old man worked for Pan American.

When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time in Panama.

Panama is very close to all the points, six hours from Los Angeles, four hours from New York, 10 hours over to Europe. And I can live on a beach. I just ended up there and I liked it.

I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.

I consider myself a pancake connoisseur, because of all the pancakes I've eaten around the world. I've been everywhere in Europe, I've eaten everywhere.

I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot of me. I see them every other day. It's pretty all-encompassing when I'm on the road.

Paris is such a beautiful city.

I really love Paris. It's my favorite city.