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said, “The future’s anybody’s game, it’s easy. Easy
stuff. But looking at the present and predicting
that, that’s damn difficult. That’s what I want to
do.” So everything he said wasn’t a prediction of
what would happen but of what had just
happened.
It’s interesting. You’ll find in artists, for example,
people say, “Oh, Picasso was years ahead of his
time.” He wasn’t, he was years ahead of his
contemporaries. He was very much a man of the
present. The same is true of any artist, and the
same was true with my father. He was very much a
man of the present. He tried awfully hard to look