Quotes About Visionary

Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.

There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.

Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.

Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.

To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers.

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

Remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

Great art comes from great artists. There's a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn't have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

All great authors are seers.

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

Great businessmen are creators.

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.

I always see what's... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what's wrong. I never see what's right. It's not a recipe for happiness.

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history.

LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

Don't let them make you doubt yourself. All the greatest visionaries in history have been told they were insane at some point.

After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in the right direction.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

We need a politician who hates politics.

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.