毕加索说：“我能用很短的时间就画的像一位大师，但我却要用一生去学习画地像一个儿童。”
一直不是很理解这句话，终于到现在，感觉好像懂了那么一点了，是在看《中国哲学简史》这部书中‘悟’道的，容我细细讲来~
《庄子》大宗师篇中讲了这么个关于孔子与颜回的故事：
颜回曰：“回益矣”
仲尼曰：“何谓也”
曰：“回也忘仁义矣”
曰“可矣，犹未也”
它日复见，曰：“回益矣”
曰：“何谓也”
曰：“回也忘礼乐矣”
曰：“可矣，犹未也”
它日复见，曰：“回益矣”
曰：“何谓也”
曰：“回也忘坐矣”
仲尼蹴然曰“何谓坐忘”
颜回曰：“堕肢体，黜聪明，离形去知，同于大通，此谓坐忘”
仲尼曰：“同则无好也，化则无常也，而果其贤乎？丘也，请从而后也”
当然这是庄子编的故事，大致意思是颜回用“弃知”的方法得到了“内圣”之道。 “弃知”的结果是没有知识，但“无知”与“不知（弃知）”不同，前者是原始的无知状态，后者是经过有知阶段后才达到的，前者是自然产物，后者是精神的创造。就好像一个圆环绕了一圈又回到了原点，单回到原点后在二维坐标上是相同的，就是（X，Y）一样，但是Z坐标不一样了。但是我们智慧依然停留在二维空间上的话看起来好像是没什么区别，就像看毕加索的画看不懂一样，因为维度不同，这也就可以解释“…画的像个孩子”这句话吧，毕加索已经达到了类似颜回的境界，所以画得像个孩子，但是他所说的孩子和我们普通人理解的孩子肯定不是同一个意思。（开始觉得有点像独孤求败练剑那一段可以解释他的这句话，但后来觉得这个解释还是差一点，庄子的解释更好~）
好了，啰嗦那么多，回到毛姆和他的书上…书中的画家Strickland其实也像是到达的道的一种境界，可以说是“无我”吧，就像《老子》中说的“天地不仁，以万物为刍狗，圣人不仁，以万物为刍狗”，这里不能说Strickland已经到圣人的境界，但他真的好像到了以“万物为刍狗”的境界了…所以他离开自己的妻子、孩子没有一点怀念，他在巴黎情人（他朋友的妻子）因为他自杀了也没有一点悲痛之情，好像跟他没有关系,他为在乎的就是画画，可是他画画也从来没有想过去让别人看，他画画从来不为了得到别人的认可而去画画，他已经不属于这个社会了，说的好听一点，就是“出世”了。（我曾经思考过，我很喜欢画画，假如世界上只存在我一个人，没有人会看我的画，我还会画画吗？好像那个时候连活着都没有意思了哈，就像伯牙摔琴一样，再没有知音，我就不弹了，可是毛姆塑造的人物，好像已经超越了我们思维的边界了…,毛姆真是一个了不起的作家！！！）
冯友兰先生在他著的《中国哲学简史》中提到过这么一种说法：他把各种不同的人生境界划分为四个概括的等级，从最低级到最高级依次是自然境界、功利境界、道德境界、天地境界，我想，毛姆所描写的Strickland这个人物，好像是达到了第四种境界了。
下面是摘抄~
1.My only excuse is that the impression they made on me was no other.there was just that shawowiness about them which you find in people whose lives are part of the social organism,so that they exist in it and by it only.they are like cells in the body,essential,but,so long as they remain healthy,engulfed in the momentous whole.
2.It was this:i ask myself whether there was not in his soul some deep-rooted instinct of creation,which the circumstances of life had obscured,but which grew relentlessly,as a cancer may grow in the living tissues,till at last it took possession of his whole being and forced him irresistibly to action.
3.It is not true that suffering ennobles the characters,happiness does that sometimes,but suffering,for the most part,makes men petty and vindictive.
4.when a women loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul.Because she's week,she has a rage for domination,and nothing less will satisfy her.She has a small mind,and she resents the abstract which she is unable to grasp.She is occupied with material things,and she is jealous of the ideal.
The soul of man wanders through the uttermost regions of the universe,and she seeks to imprison it in the circle of her account-bok.
5.He was single-hearted in his aim,and to pursue it he was willing to sacrifice not only himself-many can do that-but others.
(他是如此的专一，以至于为了在追求它（绘画）的时候，除了自己可以为之牺牲以外，甚至别人可以牺牲)
25."it is obvious that to lead such an exitence and make so great a success of it,you must both have needed a strong will and a determined character."
"perhaps;but without one other factor we could have achieved nothing"
"and what was that？“
He stopped，somewhat dramatically，and stretched out his arm.
"Belief in God.Without that we should have been lost"
