“Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)
1838
Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)
“My specialty is really painting moonlight – but I will not forget the sunshine.”
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
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