Recognition is too easy to arouse vivid consciousness. For to perceive, a beholder must create his own experience. (…) Experiencing, like breathing is a rhythm of intakings and outgivings. (…) The junction of the new and old is not a mere composition of forces, but is a re-creation in which the present impulsion gets form and solidity while the old, the “stored”, material is literally revived, given new life and soul through having meet a new situation.

John Dewey