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Van Gogh on 'The Night Cafe': I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green. The room is blood red and dark yellow with a green billiard table in the middle; there are four lemon yellow lamps with a glow of orange and green. Everywhere there is a clash and contrast of the most alien reds and greens in the figures of little sleeping hooligans, in the empty dreary room. . . . I have tried to express as it were the powers of darkness in a low drink shop. . . .' (Art: A History of painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Frederick Hartt, 3rd ed., New York: Abrams, 1989)
