“Real painters do not paint things as they are… they paint them as they themselves feel them to be.”

–Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. Wikipedia