Painting and predicting the future

There are many reasons why I love painting. The most powerful is that I makes me see the future. There is nothing on a canvas or a paper in the beginning, it is terrifyingly white but in my mind the painting already exists. I can almost perfectly see it. 
What an awesome experience to visualise the future and to watch the future unfolding before your eyes - not by chance but by total purpose and craft. It makes me happy. I wish I could do the same thing with other fields of life, too.