As you’ll see in these films, Vincent somehow (as said in a van Gogh-themed episode of Dr. Who) “transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty,” which is something to both celebrate and implement into our own creative journey. The life of Vincent van Gogh was not enviable, but it was admirable, and these films capture it well. He was ahead of his time and he knew it, once writing to Theo: “…whether the pictures are a long time in being appreciated or not, they will find a collector someday.” Some of these films romanticize the struggle, but, then again, so did Vincent. He once wrote: “The more I am spent, ill, a broken pitcher, by so much more am I an artist—a creative artist.”