Starry Night, St-Remy 1889 - Vincent Van Gogh

'One night I went for a walk by the sea along the empty shore. It was not gay, but neither was it sad...it was...beautiful. The deep-blue sky-was flooded with clouds of a blue deeper than the fundamental blue of intense cobalt, and others of a clearer blue, like the blue whiteness of the Milky Way. In the blue depth the stars were sparkling, greenish, yellow, white, pink, more brilliant, more sparklingly gemlike than at home - even in Paris