I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.
Vincent van Gogh, Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, Calif.) (1990). “Vincent van Gogh, painter, printmaker, collector”
