Noun
an iconic mental representation
Source: WordNetI wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image. Michael Chabon
I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either. Antoni Tàpies
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19. E. B. White
An ethic to supplement and guide the economic relation to land presupposes the existence of some mental image of land as a biotic mechanism. Aldo Leopold
A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image. Roy H. Williams
The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet. Mary Higgins Clark