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Hey, he wrote letters to his brother Theo about being misunderstood, irrelevant, and being rejected. He feared he wasn't good enough. Emily Dickinson had over 1,800 unpublished poems discovered on her death, which made her famous posthumously. Franz Kafka wanted his unpublished work burned after his death etc, etc.

Kelly Thompson TNWWY's avatar

I’m surprised you see Van Gogh et al as afraid of being seen. That’s not my take at all. The world was too afraid to see them.

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