The phrase "evoke ideas" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to bring forth or stimulate thoughts or notions in someone's mind. Example: The artist's abstract painting evoked ideas of freedom and self-expression in the viewers.
A clothing chain that wants to evoke ideas of homespun, functional elegance is called Toast.
The candy pieces evoke ideas of Catholic transubstantiation, but also something more erotically charged and subversive.
For Empiricist philosophers (such as David Hume, Joseph Addison, Archibald Alison, and Lord Kames), imagination involves a kind of "associative" process, whereby experiences evoke ideas, and so become united with them.
And I get it: pictures of beatific celebrities breastfeeding their adorable children evoke ideas about "natural" motherhood and seek to end the shame that still exists around public breastfeeding.
So does observing the typical cause of a passion: if we contemplate the instruments laid out for another's surgery, even someone unknown to us, they evoke ideas in us of fear and pain.
The Garden is a solo show from Munson, with the centric piece visualized as a feminine bedroom overflowing with found synthetic items, which evoke ideas of societal waste.
LONDON — There was a time not long ago when the image of pajamas evoked ideas like innovation, creativity, even freedom.
Ironically, for many of us living today, Beaujolais evokes ideas of industrial production, but it was in fact one of the first wine regions to embrace the expression of Mother Nature through the soil and in the resulting wines.
Its poster promises the story of "the most lethal sniper in US history", the star-spangled banner billows conspicuously in the foreground, while the title evokes ideas of chest-thumping military triumphalism.
To early observers, the fracture from such a crack evoked ideas of a phenomenon of degradation over time, which was supported in the minds of the proponents of this interpretation by the smooth fracture face redolent of a fracture in a brittle material; this led them to postulate that the material had suffered an instantaneous fracture.
In a letter to Mersenne, Descartes asks why "what makes one man want to dance may make another want to cry": it may be, he suggests, that the second man has "never heard a galliard without some affliction befalling him", so that he cries "because it evokes ideas in [his] memory" (18 March 1630, in Descartes 1991, p. 20; see Sutton 1998, pp. 74 81).
