“The simple fact is that if she and I choose to love each other, if we are attached to each other, which we have been for a long time for that matter, we are doing no harm which people have a right to reproach either one of us with. And in my eyes it is absurd that people should feel obliged to bother their heads about it.”

Vincent van Gogh
At this time, Vincent was 31 year old.

Letter to Theo van Gogh
Nuenen, November 1884

Vincent van Gogh
Water Mill at Gennep
1884