a capability of viewing the world differently, which allows an individual to identify patterns, trends, and opportunities. Some conceive it as the ability to form a picture of what they want of the future and make it happen. There are authors who consider the concept of the visionary as one that is constituted by a set of acquired skills and, thus, a state that can be learned. For this reason, there are now training and educational programs that promise its learners that they can become visionary leaders. This is demonstrated by a growing body of literature that cites techniques, which can be obtained from courses in visionary thinking, for a person to reach beyond illusory boundaries. In art Artists may produce work loosely categorized as visionary art for its luminous content and/or for its use of artistic techniques that call for the use of extended powers of perception in the viewer: (e.g. Gustave Moreau, Samuel Palmer, Jean Delville, Ernst Fuchs, the French Symbolist Odilon Redon, Brion Gysin, Max Ernst, Stanley Spencer, Edward Burne-Jones, Adolf Wolfli, Fred Sandback, William Blake, Hieronymus Bosch, and Henry Darger). Visionary art can be incorrectly defined as a category of primitive art (art of those not formally trained) rather than describing people who have used their visions (or dreams) to create their paintings. Salvador Dalí is one artist who would exemplify visionary art that is neither religious nor primitive. Notes References Celestial Visitations The Art of Gilbert Williams (Pomegranate Artbooks) , 1979 Carlo McCormick Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey", Inner Traditions International, 1990 Metamorphosis: 50 Contemporary Surreal, Fantastic and Visionary Artists (beinArt) John Maizels,Raw Creation: Outsider Art and Beyond (1996). Elka Spoerri, Daniel Baumann and E. M. Gomez, The Art of Adolf Wolfli (2003). Geiger, John (2005). Nothing Is True - Everything Is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin. The Disinformation Company, 130. . R. Todd Wise The Great Vision of Black Elk as Literary Ritual", in The Black Elk Reader, 2000. Fantastic Art (Taschen) ( Schurian, Prof. Dr. Walter) (English edition), 2005 Metamorphosis (beinArt) , 2007 Cosmic Art Ramond & Lila Piper (Hawthorne Books) , 1975 Fantastic art Naïve painters Prophecy