What distinguishes the true artist from not present?

[Seriy]

What's the difference? Yes, the artist must be sold and Van Gogh sought it. He was a man with a kind of social behavior - what is the story of his preaching to the miners environment. Most successful his work, he began to set up two years before his tragic end, so neither in fact nor in sovremennyi standards, he could not manage to become popular. He was obsessed with painting.
This is all well combined with asceticism, as the special friends he had not, and local residents by the parties. And the madness, or rather the mental illness he had, he understood this and understood that the development of this disease completely negate his connection to the world. So it happened. And he committed suicide. Tragic story, what to do.
If he was healthy, then another 5 years and his fame would be overtaken.
The fact that he understood how important it is in decorative painting - he's a huge plus.
Many artists have become recluses, because it helps to concentrate. Picasso, too, shut the door and the estate, even the son could not enter for weeks.

Paul, you would have little material with images of popular artists of the Salon, to compete with the Impressionists, which you mention, sometimes because none of this info, except you do not own, all would be very interesting.