the pictorial imagination
...We use the term "pictorial imagination" to mean the artist´s capacity to recognize and to be stimulated by the aesthetic potential of something she/he/they sees or otherwise experiences and her/his/their ability to create an image of greater power and significance in a pictorial context of shapes and colors. "Aesthetic recognition" as a part of pictorial imagination, then, might be described as a capacity for heightened perception, which is one aspect of what we called "vision." (Form Space Vision, Graham Collier, p. 212)