Abstract
The article is a discussion of Alfred North Whitehead's and Henri Bergson's considerations of the difference between creativity and stagnation in art. A comparison of the ideas of these two thinkers is then made with the intention of demonstrating the similarity of their approaches to the nature and meaning of fundamental innovations in art.
The article also emphasizes that, according to the two thinkers, such innovations are derived from the artist's relationship with multifaceted reality and are inspired by a true revelation of it. Finally, the article considers Whitehead's and Bergson's ideas about the relationship between artistic creativity and the future: the future of universal harmony in Whitehead and the future of artistic production in Bergson.