"Well, we have to take our share of the illnesses of our time, and it seems after all only right that - having lived for years in relatively good health- we should sooner or later receive our part. As for me, you must know that I shouldn't have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it."
Vincent Van Gogh, from a letter written while he was involuntarily confined in a psychiatric hospital in 1889
What perfection on canvas. And his comment on the lack of choice is spot on.
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