This sounds very like something I remember from Stephen King's non-fiction book "On Writing." To paraphase from memory:

King describes writing as a form of practical telepathy. A writer's job is only done well if he succeeds in transmitting to his reader the same scene that he envisions, in all it's essential features. If he's describing a rabbit in a wire cage on a table and the reader sees a rabbit in a wire cage on a table, then the writer has succeeded. But if the fact that the color of the tablecloth is green is an essential feature of the scene, then the writer needs to make sure the reader "sees" that color as well.

Of course, I'm personally of the opinion that King himself goes just a bit overboard with description. I find his non-fiction and his shorter work very readable: one of the few works of his that I've read more than once are the stories in his "Everything's Eventual" collection, particularly "Lunch At The Gotham Cafe.". But King's full-sized novels tend to put me to sleep.