Imagery immerses readers in the ambiance created by the pebbles of words, making it compelling and memorable.

As a writer, I believe that showing or letting readers feel is often more convincing than telling, and imagery allows me to accomplish just that.

Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our routine everyday existence by fantasizing about travel, food, sex, falling in love, or having the last word—all the things that make life interesting. Imagination gives us the opportunity to envision new possibilities—it is an essential launchpad for making our hopes come true. It fires our creativity, relieves our boredom, alleviates our pain, enhances our pleasure, and enriches our most intimate relationships.

The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.

A work is imaginative in virtue of the power of its images over our emotions; not in virtue of any rarity or surprisingness in the images themselves.

Imagination is the manipulation of images in one's head... the rational manipulation... as well as the literary and artistic manipulation.

Image…that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

Imagination is a form of seeing

Imagination is one of our most powerful tools. What we imagine, we can become.

Imagination is the outreaching of mind … the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, impulses, images and every sort of psychic phenomena welling up from the preconscious. It is the capacity to "dream dreams and see visions..."

Imagination is everything

An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool. It can create a mood or feeling that people want to have, as well as transport you to a different place altogether.

Imagination... implies originality. It results in a reflection... of the working mind of the designer. ...Imagination may be called the dynamic force in art. ...It is the quality which distinguishes the artistic from the photographic representation of nature.