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Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso...all famous painters notorious for evoking emotion with their paintings. The whole purpose of painting is to make the viewer feel something, not just think a painting a lovely wall decoration. Painting is a form of self-expression, elegance, and intelligence. It’s thoughts and feelings dancing across a naked canvas in multi-colored hues. Painting is more than just “painting”-- for some, it’s a way of life. Painters are made, not born. Certain situations, instabilities, losses, and rejections serve as a catalyst for wielding talent. Painters need inspiration, which they gather from life experience, or of what they have witnessed and participated in life. Vincent van Gogh was rejected by three women whom he loved in his life, as well was mentally and emotionally unstable. He was always known as keeping to himself as a child. He lived a prostitute, Sein, who was pregnant with a five-year old daughter. She became a model he used frequently. Eventually, he left her and had a love affair with Margot Begemann, who later attempted suicide. (Brooks, pg 3-4). Leonardo da Vinci was born an illegitimate child, and when his father died, he was left with nothing. He g