Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination. – Karl Philipp Moritz

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. – e. e. cummings

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. – Georg C. Lichtenberg