I am seeking for blue

“I am seeking for blue all the time. The peasant’s figures are as a rule blue here. That blue, in the ripe corn or against the withered leaves of a beech hedge, is very beautiful, and has struck me from the very first. The people here instinctively wear the most beautiful blue that I have ever seen. It is coarse linen which they weave themselves, warp black, woof blue, the result of which is a black-and-blue-striped pattern. When this fades, and becomes somewhat discoloured by wind and weather, it is an infinitely quiet, delicate tone which just brings out the flesh colours.”

—Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, edited by Irving Stone, 1958.