Henri Bergson Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

  Henri Bergson

  Art, Work, Personality

• If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

  Henri Bergson

  Art, Communication, Reality

• Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

  Henri Bergson

  Art, Reality, Order

• In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

  Henri Bergson

  Running, Art, Attitude

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