梵高-«星夜»1889年

画作永远充满盛大灿烂的色彩，

流动不息的旺盛生命力。

粗砺的线条，细碎的笔触，

高饱和度高对比度的色彩，

对世界的爱敏感、热烈、粗犷，

又带着孩童式的单纯与稚拙。

他在与弟弟提奥的书信文字中，

闪现的思想的火花着实太迷人，

他不仅是画家，

简直可以称得上思想家。

梵高留下的文字基本都出自写给弟弟提奥的900多封信。提奥是他生命中最重要的人，不仅是兄弟，更是他的知己、资助人，甚至他选择画家这个职业，都是因为提奥的建议。

提奥本身也是艺术眼光卓绝的艺术品经销商，莫奈、德加等印象派画家都是被他捧红的。与如此知音交流，梵高的信中频频迸溅思想火花，直抒胸臆地陈情。

NO.1

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. 我觉得人间之爱最为艺术。

NO.2

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. 我梦想着作画，又画下我的梦想。

NO.3

I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.人生在世三十载，感恩中希望留下馈赠。

NO.4

One must work and dare if one really wants to live. 要想生活，就得劳动和拼搏。

NO.5

The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting. 只有在绘画中，我才感到自己活着。

NO.6

What colour is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life. 色彩之于画作，一如热血之于生活。

NO.7

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.真心热爱自然，就会发现美无处不在。

梵高《杏仁花》1890年

NO.8

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say“he feels deeply, he feels tenderly”.我希望用自己的艺术作品打动人们。希望听到他们说“这人深情款款，温情脉脉”。

NO.9

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.农夫躬耕，我亦力作。

NO.10

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all. 已识乾坤大，顿觉人生妙。

NO.11

I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad or commit a crime.

我说过，咖啡馆是自我毁灭、癫狂或犯罪的场所。

NO.12

The way to know life is to love many things.欲洞察人生，便得热爱万物。

NO.13

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. 画手的灵魂赋予画作生命。

NO.14

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

天地之美令我心惊。我诚惶诚恐，画作如梦浮现。

NO.15

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. 我固然时常深感悲哀，内心仍守着宁静、音乐与和谐无暇。

NO.16

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke. 我心怀烈焰，却无人驻足取暖；过客匆匆，只见一缕轻烟。

NO.17

I wish they would only take me as I am. 只求他们接纳我本身。

NO.18

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragmented I am, the more I become an artist. 越是瓦解，越是病态碎裂，我就越接近艺术。

NO.19

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream. 世事无绝对，而目睹星辰令我怔忡。

NO.20

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech. 有时情难自禁，我在恍惚间创作。下笔如诉。

NO.21

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.积跬步而至千里。

NO.22

In spite of everything, I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. 尽管此番种种，我会东山再起。

NO.23

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. 艺术家在世，死亡并非至难。

梵高《阿尔勒的卧室》1888年.

NO.24

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing. 既然眼下我忙着应付自己，我想试着用文字描绘自己。

NO.25

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. 我寻寻觅觅，奋不顾身，全情投入。

NO.26

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be colour.极致与均衡不可兼得。必须择一己之道，而我愿追随色彩。

NO.27

In either figure or landscape I wish to express not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow. 描人摹景，我欲传达凝重而非伤春悲秋。

NO.28

There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even, the French air clears up the brain and does good – a world of good. 巴黎独一无二。无论这儿生活多困难，哪怕情况每况愈下，法国的气息令人头脑清净、大有裨益。

NO.29

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. 宁可激情中死，不愿枯燥而终。

NO.30

The painter of the future will be a colourist in a way no one has been before. 未来的画手将是前所未有的色彩大师。

NO.31

There are colors that cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple that complete each other. 色彩交相辉映，相映成趣。

NO.32

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?有诗有画有天地，夫复何求？

NO.33

In a certain way I am glad I have not learned painting.在某种程度上，我幸亏没学画画。

NO.34

The sunflower is mine, in a way.可以说，向日葵是属于我的花。

梵高《向日葵》1888年

NO.35

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.黄色多可爱！它代表着太阳。

NO.36

To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace. 要想干好，就得吃好住好、及时行乐，抽烟饮咖、心平气和。

NO.37

As a suffering creature, I cannot do without something greater than I – something that is my life – the power to create. 作为饱受苦难的生灵，我离不开比自己更强大的事物——那便是创作的力量，我视若生命。

NO.38

Someday death will take us to another star.某一天，死神会把我们带往另一座星球。

NO.39

I put my heart and soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. 我把心灵都献给作品，理智已不知所踪。

NO.40

I will not live without love. 无爱毋宁死。

（梵高《麦田与乌鸦》1890年）

NO.41

I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?我感到某种平静。危险中暗藏安逸。若没有勇气尝试任何，生命又该如何？

NO.42

I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognise that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture. 我的画销路不佳，是我无能为力的事实。但人们终究会意识到，它们的价值不止其中耗费的颜料。

——以上均是梵高人生的思考和格言，仅供读者参考，推荐收藏。

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