I had heard that Monet and other impressionist painters were nearsighted. This idea seems reasonable to me because that's pretty much how I saw the world without my glasses. Apparently, the idea has been put forward that the impressionist movement wouldn't have happened without painters with poor eyesight. (Click the link you may have overlooked in the previous sentence to learn more.)
In addition to being near sighted, Monet developed cataracts that changed his color perception. He painted in redder hues before a surgeon removed his cataracts. (Search on "remove his cataracts" on this Wikipedia page to learn more.)
While I pondered my more limited set of future careers, my mom tried on this dress, but decided against it:
It's not known for certain, but it's possible that Van Gogh's prominent use of yellow (link) was because he saw more yellow than the average person due to taking digitalis, which some have said one of his doctors prescribed to him for epilepsy.
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