Sincere is a superpower—on the artwork of Vincent Van Gogh

just make your mark

Vincent Van Gogh failed at every career he tried. By the age of twenty-seven he had crashed and burned in at least five different occupations—art dealer, teacher, bookshop clerk, preacher, and missionary. And then, fresh off his fifth rejection in early 1879, with no money to his name and zero art-making education, he decided to become a full-time artis…