《月亮和六便士》是英国小说家威廉· 萨默赛特·毛姆的创作的长篇小说，作品以法国印象派画家保罗·高更的生平为素材，描述了一个原本平凡的伦敦证券经纪人思特里克兰德，不惑之年，本来事业有成，家庭和睦，子女双全，但是为了追求自己内心的绘画梦想，抛妻弃子，离家跑到巴黎开始画画。最后去到了一座孤岛-塔希提岛，找到了自己的"归宿"，并创作了许许多多的惊世杰作，完成了自己对"月亮"的追逐。

　　The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham first published in 1919. It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator, in a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist. The story is in part based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin, who was a French post-Impressionist artist and now is recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism.

　　"Life isn't long enough for love and art."

　　"She loved three things - a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man."

　　"As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times."

　　"There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation."