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. Henri Bergson
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The idea of the artist as creator is one of the oldest and most fundamental images of the creative process. The fundamental problem of art is to find a way for a human being to produce a work which has a life shaped by its own inner rhythm, a rhythm which no human being can ever completely share with another.

Source: Creative Evolution

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