Van Gough painted "Starry starry Night" based on the view from his bedroom in a lunatic asylum. The lyric "...with the was based on a letter to his brother Leo in which he wrote "...this restaurant where I am is very queer; it is completely grey; the floor is of grey bitumen like a street pavement, grey paper on the walls, green blinds always drawn, a big green curtain in front of the door which is always open, to stop the dust coming in. Just as it is it is a Velasquez grey - like in the Spinning Women - and the very narrow, very fierce ray of sunlight through a blind, like the one that crosses Velasquez's picture, even that is not wanting. Little tables, of course, with white cloths. And then there are two women who wait, both in grey, a little like that picture of Prevost's you have in your place - you could compare it point for point - referred to the soft bluish grey white of the walls.