What distinguishes the true artist from not present?

[Pavel]

Veronica I'm not interested in the views of modern because it is mainly to attract attention to themselves lucre ...
Van Gogh worked for 10 years and during that time did so much. This is my favorite artist. Instead, the legends should be plunged into the atmosphere of the time and everything will become clear. It is Cezanne. Van Gogh, Gauguin, and then had Bonn. Winterhalter, academics, Bouguereau, etc. You know these artists, and then all were compared with them, and while the Impressionists were worth 200 Meissonier was worth 400000 and Bonn-700000frankov gold.
One got 20 works of Van Gogh, he washed them and wrote his was a painter. Actually it's quite serious and more interesting than fiction.