"Materialism is the recognition of 'objects in themselves' , or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects." (Vladimir Lenin, "Materialism and Empirio-Criticism", 1908)
"Images apparently occupy a curious position somewhere between the statements of language, which are intended to convey a meaning, and the things of nature, to which we only can give a meaning." (Ernst Gombrich, "Symbolic Images", 1972)
"When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images'. The first step to thinking is a painted vision of these inner pictures whose origin cannot be reduced only and firstly to the sensual perception but which are produced by an 'instinct to imagining' and which are re-produced by different individuals independently, i. e. collectively [...] But the archaic image is also the necessary predisposition and the source of a scientific attitude. To a total recognition belong also those images out of which have grown the rational concepts." (Wolfgang Pauli, [Letter to Markus Fierz] 1948)
" The symbol is the tool which gives man his power, and it is the same tool whether the symbols are images or words, mathematical signs or mesons." (Jacob Bronowski, "The Reach of Imagination", 1967)
"To imagine means to make images and to move them about inside one's head in new arrangements." (Jacob Bronowski, "The Reach of Imagination", 1967)
"These organizational processes result in our perceptions being structured into units corresponding to objects and properties of objects. It is these larger units that may be stored and later assembled into images that are experienced as quasi-pictorial, spatial entities resembling those evoked during perception itself [...] It is erroneous to equate image representations with mental photographs, since this would overlook the fact that images are composed from highly processed perceptual encodings." (Stephen Kosslyn, "Image and Mind", 1980)
"Vision is a process that produces from images of the external world a description that is useful to the viewer and not cluttered with irrelevant information." (David Marr, "Vision", 1982)
"We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible." (Lewis H Lapham, "Waiting For The Barbarians", 1997)
"But because of the way in which depictions represent, there is a correspondence between parts and spatial relations of the representation and those of the object; this structural mapping, which confers a type of resemblance, underlies the way images convey specific content. In this respect images are like pictures. Unlike words and symbols, depictions are not arbitrarily paired with what they represent." (Stephen Kosslyn et al," The Case for Mental Imagery", 2006)
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