Artist’s take vision for granted. If they couldn’t see their vision in their mind’s eye, or hear their vision in their vision in their mind’s ear, then they would have a heck of a hard time creating anything. The artist creates things from nothing, whether carving a beautiful shape out of a block of wood, or organizing vibrations and frequencies into groups of melodies and harmonies, or manipulating shades of light on a canvas or a computer screen. The artist doesn’t go very far without vision.

The curious thing here is that companies all over the world are struggling to get these kinds of visionaries. Steve Jobs was heralded as a great visionary and he himself really just considered himself an artist. Considering oneself an artist is freeing, because it means you can create, just creating towards the end of creation. Business thrives when the creativity is harnessed and turned into interesting products and innovative ideas, but they all come from the same place, the artist’s vision.

Is the artist born with this vision? Some would say so. I don’t really know, myself. I have vision, but I don’t know that I feel like I was born with some kind of special aptitude. I can tell you that I definitely know how to create the right environment for being creative. I know my process and what works for me, and I know how to work with others to get a creative output, but vision is a wholly mental and emotional process that happens in the mind of the individual. We can talk about it, we can experience other people’s visions, even bring our vision to others, but does everyone have vision or the capacity to have a vision? I guess as I type these lines, I think that each human must have the ability to be visionary, it’s just a matter of that aptitude or process being tapped.

Point is: Artist’s take their vision for granted, but if it wasn’t for the artist and their vision it would be a very dull world with very little exciting or beautiful going on… or maybe we’d learn to live a life more in tune with nature and it’s inherent beauty.