"What I am in the eyes of most people--a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person--somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest o f the low. All right, then--even if that were absolutely true, then I should like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart."

Vincent Van Gogh (in a letter to his brother in 1882. Van Gogh's work went almost totally unrecognized during his lifetime).