"Twilight is a time of day that I have not painted often. As I put the final touches to Twilight Cottage, I was reminded of how beautiful landscape appears illuminated by simple lamplight. How the soft glow from each window shines on the rambling brook. Twilight to me is somehow both mysterious and inviting. It is the time to reflect on the day that has just ended and look forward to the day ahead."

- Thomas Kinkade's Studio Journal, 1997

Painters aren't philosophers. We deal with the appearance of things, with the challenge of capturing a fleeting movement on canvas. We wrestle with the truth that underlies appearance, with the challenge posed by the eternal.
Yet there are times, I believe, when the line between painter and philosopher blurs. My Twilight Cottage suggests such a time. Its subject, twilight, is that breathless interlude between day and night when the light is so clear that it seems we can glimpse the truth between the veil of appearance.
The subject of Twilight Cottage is more than a charming little cottage nestled by a stream. It is nothing less than the joyful melody of cricket song and cascading water, the romance of sunset enhanced by a silvery sliver of waning moon, in short, the peace that passeth understanding.
A philosopher has said that our stay on earth is a kind of twilight - a brief interlude of waking dream between our embrace of eternities. The painter of Twilight Cottage humbly presents this print in affirmation of that wise understanding.

-Thomas Kinkade

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