\'瘋狂\'的凡高

喜歡上凡高，是在看了歐文斯通的LUST FOR LIFE 之後。這部沒有太多愛情描敘的傳記曾讓我在深夜裏淚流不止。還記得，大學畢業沒幾年的我背著這本書四處出差，白天把自己當男人一樣使喚，灰頭灰麵地爬著各式各樣灼燒中的高爐，為客戶安裝儀器；晚上，躲在酒店裏看書，或笑或哭。。。任情緒在孤獨中釋放。。。接著把它背到了美國。多年以後，當我以一種旁觀者的心態審視自己的那段生活，忽然能夠理解當年的感動和瘋狂。一個年輕的女孩子，那時候是需要他這樣的榜樣來蔑視平凡的生活。

他的一切，在我的眼中，都是純淨。笨拙地走在世俗中的他，才能畫出那麽糾結而純粹的色彩。出乎意料地，現實中短暫的"軟弱"和"瘋狂"成就了永遠的審美。。。

有意思的是，我最喜歡他瘋了前後的作品。我可能和他一樣瘋?! :-)

 對他生平感興趣的，看看下麵這個LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Gogh

送一首關於他的歌。

Vincent (Starry Starry Night)

Starry starry night, paint your palette blue and grey
Look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills, sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills, in colors on the snowy linen land

Now I understand what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for you sanity How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they did not know how, perhaps they'll listen now

Starry starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

Chorus:
For they could not love you, but still your love was true
And when no hope was left in sight, on that starry starry night
You took your life as lovers often do,
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

Starry, starry night, portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the stranger that you've met, the ragged man in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose, lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for you sanity How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will.