Free as a bird

Vincent Van Gogh, Mariposa

''but then the season of the great migration arrives: an attack of melancholy. He has everything he needs, said the children that tend him in his cage -but he looks out, at the heavy thundery sky, and in his heart of hearts he rebels against his fate. I am caged, I am caged and you say I need nothing, you idiots! I have everything I need, indeed! Oh, please give me the freedom to be a bird like other birds''

The letters of Vincent Van Gogh