“Yet the moonlight is the sunlight and the sun himself will pass.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 182
“Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.”
1838
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Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghost”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
"Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit"
Transport to Summer (1947)
Context: p> If there must be a god in the house, must be,
Saying things in the room and on the stair,Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor,
Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghostOr Aristotle's skeleton. Let him hang out
His stars on the wall. He must dwell quietly.He must be incapable of speaking, closed,
As those are: as light, for all its motion, is;As color, even the closest to us, is;
As shapes, though they portend us, are.It is the human that is the alien,
The human that has no cousin in the moon.It is the human that demands his speech
From beasts or from the incommunicable mass.If there must be a god in the house, let him be one
That will not hear us when we speak: a coolnessA vermillioned nothingness, any stick of the mass
Of which we are too distantly a part.</p
Herbert Giles Gems of Chinese Literature
Gems of Chinese Literature, Preface to the first edition (dated 16 October 1883)
Karel Appel (1921–2006) Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet
quotes from Appel's poem '..and now I want to talk about Willem de Kooning, February 1990 http://beeldgedicht.info/Reprocitaat/appel-kooning.htm
“Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting.”
Christopher Paolini (1983) American author
Source: Eragon & Eldest
“My specialty is really painting moonlight – but I will not forget the sunshine.”
Johan Jongkind (1819–1891) Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism
Jongkind's quote in an early letter (1840's), to his Dutch friend Eugène Smits; as cited by nl:Victorine Hefting, in Jongkinds's Universe, Henri Scrépel, Paris, 1976, p. 69
David Smith (1906–1965) American visual artist (1906-1965)
1950s, Tradition and Identity' (1959)
Donald Judd (1928–1994) artist
Source: 1960s, "Specific Objects," 1965, p. 75; Cited in: Diane Waldman. Carl Andre https://archive.org/stream/carlandre00wald#page/6/mode/1up. Published 1970 by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. p. 6