Arte e percepção

Willem Bastiaan Tholen,  De schilder Gabriël aan het werk in de vrije natuur (1882, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam)

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«A arte faz-nos sem dúvida descobrir nas coisas mais qualidades e mais cambiantes do que nos apercebemos naturalmente. Ela dilata a nossa percepção.»

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Henri Bergson, citado por Denis Huisman, A Estética, Edições 70, 1997, p. 60.

Duas frases de Bergson

George Cope, Spectacles (1900 - via Still Life Quick Heart)

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“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth all sensation is already memory.”

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“But, then, I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, which does not change every moment, since there is no consciousness without memory, and no continuation of a state without the addition, to the present feeling, of the memory of past moments. It is this which constitutes duration. Inner duration is the continuous life of a memory which prolongs the past into the present, the present either containing within it in a distinct form the ceaselessly growing image of the past, or, more profoundly, showing by its continual change of quality the heavier and still heavier load we drag behind us as we grow older. Without this survival of the past into the present there would be no duration, but only instantaneity.” 

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Henri Bergson, An Introduction to Metaphysics
Nota: os bolds são meus.

Fantasia vs. Realidade

Carl Offterdinger.

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“The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.” 

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Henri Bergson.

«What is reality?»

Karin Jurick, Blank Stare (Link)

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«The eyes only see what the mind is prepared to comprehend.»

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Henri Bergson

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Encontrei esta frase no episódio «Blindness» de uma das minhas séries preferidas (Link):

«Max Lewicki: What if I told all of you, that your partially blind. That right now you think you see the world as it truly is, but in actuality, you're missing something. It's true. See, every time we open our eyes light shines onto our retina. Nerve cells called photo receptors interpret the light, transmits the information to our brain, and THAT's how we see. But there's a small area on our retina where there are no photo receptors. This is called a scotoma or "blind spot"... we all have them. So if that's true, how is it that we never notice a black area in our field of vision?

The reason you never notice your blind spot, is because your brain is great at guessing what SHOULD be there, and automatically filling in the blanks. Sometimes we know what we want to see, and our neo-cortex turns that expectation into a kind of virtual reality. Which means that some of the world we see is really just an illusion. A scary thought when you consider how vulnerable that makes us. So, how do we uncover our blind spots? How do we ever fully see the truth that's right in front of our eyes? Well, a good place to start is to simply open your mind. Because, as the French philosopher Henri Bergson said, 'The eyes sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.'»

Existir

Praia Azul - Santa-Cruz (Fotografia de Margarida Elias, 2009).

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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

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Henri Bergson