Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.

You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

It's all about the art, really, at the end of the day.

I find beauty very frightening because it's such an all consuming subject in our society.

We start caring way too much about that new TV show or how many likes we're getting on Facebook or what our mother will think of our new house plant. These are bad values that turn us into frivolous people.

I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.

I try to be nice, I try to respect other people, but over the years I've learned that all this stuff we do is a bunch of crap. That doesn't mean it doesn't have its place. We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.

A man is hit by a car while crossing a Beverly Hills street. A woman rushes to him and cradles his head in her lap, asking, Are you comfortable? The man answers, I make a nice living.

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial

Truth is beauty