“悲伤会永远持续。”这是梵高生前的最后一句话。许多年来,人们欣赏着像梵高一样的天才们创造出来的作品,绘画也好,诗歌也罢;我们欣赏他们,不仅仅因为他们的超凡才华所带给世界的美好,也欣赏他们所承受的比我们多得多的悲伤和痛苦。这些天才们的抑郁给他们的才情更添了一层忧伤而神秘的色彩。无论是打死自己的硬汉海明威,还是站在峰巅而最终疯癫的尼采[1],还是此地长眠者,声明水上书的济慈。艺术家似乎成了抑郁症的代名词。虽然在今天,这个病症有点儿被滥用,然而我们还是忍不住要问:抑郁到底给天才们带来了什么?究竟是因为抑郁而使得天才变成天才,还是因为天才注定比常人要过得忧愁一些? “Sadness will last forever.” This is the last sentence of Van Gogh’s life. For many years, people admired works created by geniuses like Van Gogh, painting or poetry, and we appreciated them not only for the beauty of the world brought by their extraordinary talents, but also for the proportions they bear We have much more sadness and pain. The depression of these geniuses adds a sad and mysterious color to their talents. Whether it was to kill his own tough guy Hemingway, or Nietzsche, who stood on the summit and was ultimately insane, or a long-time resident here, he declared Keats of the water book. The artist seems to have become synonymous with depression. Although today, the condition is a bit abused, we still can not help but ask: what does depression bring to the geniuses? Did genius become genius because of depression or is genius destined to be better than ordinary people? Some sad?