Art Quote by Henri Bergson

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

— Henri Bergson

Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and…

— Henri Bergson

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is unique and…

— Henri Bergson

“But, then, I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, which does not change every moment, since there…

— Henri Bergson

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

— Henri Bergson

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools,…

— Henri Bergson

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

— Henri Bergson

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived…

— Henri Bergson

It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose…

— Henri Bergson

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

— Henri Bergson

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

— Henri Bergson

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

— Henri Bergson