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.
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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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