Did you know that that fame is hardly ever seen by the one who earns it?

Did you know that that fame is hardly ever seen by the one who earns it?  Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting in his entire lifetime.  Yet now, long after his death, he is regarded as one of the best painters to have ever lived.  It is amazing how things like fame came come around and give you your due credit only when you are dead.  It makes me wonder if anyone I know now will be famous after we are dead and gone.