If you hear a voice within ...

If you hear a voice within you say \'you cannot paint,\' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
 Vincent Van Gogh

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Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really appreciate my art. It is not their fault; we do not see the same things with the same eyes, or have the same thoughts raised in us by them. They will never be able to understand what painting is.
 Vincent Van Gogh
Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence. 

 Vincent Van Gogh
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
 Vincent Van Gogh
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
 Vincent Van Gogh
I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
 Vincent Van Gogh