artistic foresight Quotes

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

The thing is, I think as a director or a writer or whatever, you have to have a vision. And you have to be maybe sometimes too early, somewhere.

A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.

God would have to beam into me what I was doing and what the album actually sounded like because usually when I start a project like that, I already know what the album sounds like before I start it.

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

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers. Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.

I didn't take that many pictures of The Beatles, but I did photograph them before anybody else knew about them, and that makes me proud. I saw something in them.

My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something.

A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen.

All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.

A lot of documentaries have been made very quickly, but I think they're like frogs in an ecosystem: They're harbingers. Film is always two or three years behind, because it takes so long to write a script, get financing, and get it made. It just takes a while. But I think it's coming. It has to.

Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.

It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.

I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.