but if a simple arrest of the action that generates form could constitute matter
(are not the original lines drawn by the artist themselves already the fixation and,
as it were, congealment of a movement?), a creation of matter would be neither incomprehensible nor inadmissible. for we seize from within, we live at every 
instant, a creation of form, and it is just in those cases in which the form is pure,
and in which the creative current is momentarily interrupted, that there is a creation
of matter. consider the letters of the alphabet that enter into the composition of
everything that has ever been written: we do not conceive that new letters spring up and come to join themselves to the others in order to make a new poem. 

                                                                                                                      -henri bergson