Charlie Parker Quotes

I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.

Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful.

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.

I love things that are really linear and perfect and simple.

There is beauty in everything.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, ... or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.

It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or also Jackson Pollock. That's beautiful to me. But also nature. A person can be beautiful as well. And beauty is also defined as 'untouched'. Indeed, that's an ideal: that we humans are untouched and therefore beautiful.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.

There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.