《月亮和六便士》是英國小說家威廉· 薩默賽特·毛姆的創作的長篇小說，作品以印像派畫家保羅·高更的為素材，描述了一個原凡的倫敦證券經紀人思特裡克蘭德，不惑之年，本來事業有成，家庭和睦，子女雙全，但是為了追求自己內心的繪畫夢想，拋妻棄子，離家跑到巴黎開始畫畫。□後去到了一座孤島-塔希提島，找到了自己的"歸宿"，並創作了許許多多的驚世傑作，完成了自己對"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 mle-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."