If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Si tu entends une voix en toi te dire: 'Tu ne peux pas peindre', alors peins et cette voix sera réduite au silence.
Artists
Vincent van Gogh
Born in the Netherlands in 1853, Van Gogh produced some two thousand works in ten years before dying at thirty-seven. The Starry Night and Sunflowers channel emotion through blazing color.
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