Long before being artists, we are artisans; and all fabrication, however rudimentary, lives on likeness and repetition, like the natural geometry which serves as its fulcrum. Fabrication works on models which it sets out to reproduce; and even when it invents, it proceeds, or imagines itself to proceed, by a new arrangement of elements already known. Its principle is that we must have like to produce like. In short, the strict application of the principle of finality, like that of the principle of mechanical causality, leads to the conclusion that all is given. Both principles say the same thing in their respective languages, because they respond to the same need.
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About Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson was a 19th-century French philosopher. Henri-Louis Bergson was a French philosopher who was influential in the traditions of analytic philosophy and continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War, but also after 1966 when Gilles Deleuze published Le Bergsonisme. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Art — Creativity, expression, and the role of art in society
- Creativity — The spark of original thought, invention, and artistic vision