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Vincent Van Gogh had a short life, but he still managed to create 2,000 pieces of art. He was ahead of his time, and his paintings went highly underappreciated. But the total number of works he sold while alive is one. His brother bought it.
Van Gogh is now revered as one of the best artists to have lived but because it wasn’t like that when he was alive, he took matters into his own hands. He ended his own life broke, with a note saying “I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.”
