We would define Imagination to be the will working on the materials of memory, not satisfied with following the order prescribed by nature, or suggested by accident, it selects the parts of different conceptions, or objects of memory, to form a whole, more pleasing, more terrible or more awful than has ever been presented in the ordinary course of nature.
-Webster's Dictionary 1828
That is one helluva definition. That’s almost a license to get away with murder—in the artistic sense, of course. It suggests that Imagination is only limited by our willingness to allow outside sources to alter our original concepts.
Everything ever invented was created by someone’s Imagination.
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