I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity—all I hope for in my clothes.
—Yves Saint Laurent (b. 1936)
I think I noticed once
T’was morning one sole street-lamp still bright-lit,
Which, with a senile grin, like an old dunce,
Vied the blue sky, and tried to rival it....
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
—Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)