creative foresight Quotes

I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

My songs are always four years ahead of me. They're like my teachers.

Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.

My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.

To know how a character will behave in any given situation is a necessity and a gift.

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.

I knew that's where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn't make this movie in America at this price. I knew it was going to be big. I knew there was going to be a ship involved and that there was going to be a set as big as the ship. I thought, well, here we go. But I knew that was where he was headed. He had been going this way for some time. All directors, once they have some success, they want to spend a whole heck of a lot of money. (Something else can't hear.)

it is a shoe designer's job to be a year ahead of our collective unconscious.

One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

The funny thing is that when you have any form of presentation to your band, meaning you have the foresight to see outside of your creativity, you have a bigger vision.

All a designer can do is to anticipate a mood before people realize that they are bored. It is simply a matter of getting bored first

I'm always gratified when I check something I've made up and discover that I've gotten it right. How can we imagine something that turns out to be true? How can we know things we couldn't possibly know? It makes me wonder about the existence of a collective unconscious.