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

Those words came from Vincent Van Gogh. Am sure you have about this post-impressionist painter. Oh, he's Dutch by the way. We can all relate to Don Mclean's song entitled Vincent which the composer dedicated to the said painter. The opening lines, if my memory serves me right, are:

Starry starry night,
paint your pallete blue and grey.
Look out on a summer's day,
with eyes that know the
darkness in my soul.

If you have seen the painting, Starry Night, the lyrics are the description of the painting itself. Here's a sample of the painting.



The painting is considered to be his greatest work. Probably because up until now, the painting is hard to understand. Understand what Van Gogh was feeling when he created the masterpiece.

In an article about his painting, it states as follows:

Starry Night was painted while Vincent was in the asylum at Saint-Rémy and his behaviour was very erratic at the time, due to the severity of his attacks. Unlike most of Van Gogh's works, Starry Night was painted from memory and not outdoors as was Vincent's preference. This may, in part, explain why the emotional impact of the work is so much more powerful than many of Van Gogh's other works from the same period.

Too bad he developed a mild manic depression and schizophrenia, product of his brilliance leading to cutting his own ear. But the suspected sickness mentioned above is not the reason he cut off his ear. He was diagnosed with Meniere's disease, a condition caused by an increase in the amount of fluid in the canals of the inner ear that control a person's balance.

But that's not my point. (hehe, oh, ahem). I found this article about researchers solving one of the world's most myterious painting in art history. The painting is Vincent van Gogh's "Moonrise".

"And now I think I know
what you tried to say to me
how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they're not
list'ning still
perhaps they never will"

Au Revoir!