Van Gogh's night sky is a field of roiling energy. Below the exploding stars, the village is a place of quiet order. Connecting earth and sky is the flamelike cypress, a tree traditionally associated with graveyards and mourning. But death was not ominous for van Gogh. "Looking at the stars always makes me dream," he said, "Why, I ask myself, shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France? Just as we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star."

　The artist wrote of his experience to his brother Theo: "This morning I saw the country from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big." This morning star, or Venus, may be the large white star just left of center in The Starry Night. The hamlet, on the other hand, is invented, and the church spire evokes van Gogh's native land, the Netherlands. The painting, like its daytime companion, The Olive Trees, is rooted in imagination and memory. Leaving behind the Impressionist doctrine of truth to nature in favor of restless feeling and intense color, as in this highly charged picture, van Gogh made his work a touchstone for all subsequent Expressionist painting.

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　　梵高的線條充滿強烈的力量，一筆線條緊接著一筆線條，猶如雕刻家的作品一樣強烈及清晰。在這幅名為《星夜》的畫中，畫面上的線條差不多一樣的粗細，一排排地列在山上，像從左邊向右邊進行，帶來動勢的感覺。
　　這些線條，除了房屋及高聳入雲的教堂外，都是這樣的，並且向後曲捲著，越捲越高。畫面左邊的是插入天空的絲柏，伸向天際，象徵著梵高患了精神病的孤寂靈魂。
　　畫面下方是聖雷米的街景，沈睡在深夜裡。畫面上方則是藍色的寧靜星空，佔了畫面三分之二的位置。看來有如太陽一般發出強烈光線的月亮，與閃爍的十一顆星星，浮現在夜空中，雲彩像漩渦。梵高的星空，不只是自然現象的形象化，而是他的幻想與意志的顯現。
　　梵高所畫的月亮及星群都具有眩人的光彩，閃耀在天空，他用極鮮艷的線條，使月亮及每一顆星星旋轉著，連接著，表示它們正在橫越銀河。