<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sebatianos @ Aug 2 2007, 07:18 PM) [snapback]302471[/snapback]</div>
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First off, we should all know what ART is. The most simple and still valid explenation I could ever find was that "art is way of creating something without the intent of having material gain from it."[/b]
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I've always had a hard time pinning down what makes art.
I don't think it's mandatory that art and product be totally separate, though.
Almost every artist in history has made money from their art, or someone else has made money from it, apart from a few outsiders like that hobo in the US that had a weird compulsion to build a tower out of cardboard boxes.
At the moment I'm standing behind the delightful "Art is anything that was deliberately created to be of no use to anyone" theory.
Just so this isn't a total derailment from the point of the thread, and since I've been thinking about it a bit, I'll get back to imagination...
To break it down as simply as possible, imagination is the ability to imagine something that
isn't actually happening. It's not strictly visual, but that's how it'll usually happen if you're not a jedi.
So, to set your mind at ease, if you've ever imagined yourself running alongside the car you're in slicing up cars with a sword or a laser you're ok and your brain hasn't been rotted yet.