I doubt that Picasso imagined a wonderful dream world where a 5'4" painter would have beautiful women throwing themselves at him, where his name would become synonymous with Modern Art, where his work would be worth a fortune in his lifetime, where his paintings would be hung in every major art gallery with the same prominence as the old masters, where people would visit his birthplace as a shrine, and where an artist could discharge a firearm at his critics and get away with it. He just imagined how the paint would look on the canvas, and then he put it there. All of the other stuff just came with the magic he could produce with that paint.

Picasso was in Paris during the Nazi German occupation during WW II. Instead of joining the titanic struggle going on at the time, he just painted and illegally cast in bronze which was smuggled to him by the resistance, and there was the usual drama with women. The Germans harassed him a little bit, and his art was forbidden and considered “degenerate”, but they never had him rounded up and sent to a concentration camp because he was freakin’ Picasso. The magic protected him from the Gestapo.

I don’t think that can make that kind of magic with art if you are worried about some future dream world for all, or even just for yourself. You have to work with the materials and people available now, to make the magic so you can use it. Speculating about the wonderful dream world of the future, as far as other people are involved particularly, is a waste of time since that world will not be the same for all. Personally I would like to have chilled rye Manhattans running out of the taps, but others might want champagne, or even San Pelligrino. It’s better to spend the time working on the magic of your art than worrying about what others will want in some impossible utopia.