今天在经济学人三月十九日的艺术栏目里面读到一面读到了一篇评论英国著名画家康斯泰布尔早年生平的著作的文章，文章之中提到了康斯泰布尔对于他一生所钟情的风景画的基本理念，一看，这不就是我当初打算写莫扎特笔记时候心中所想的吗？很久以前我一直想写一篇长文章论述一下，无奈根本没有时间和精力，没有想到今天见到一段，基本就把我心中的想法表达出来了，所以我摘抄出来，算是我的那些假象之中的文章的代替品了。

Constable was extraordinarily modern in believing that nothing could be intrinsically ugly: “old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things,” he wrote. It was a question of association and feeling. Mood mattered more than subject matter. He once corrected someone who had called a painting of his “only a picture of a house”, by pointing out that it was a picture “of a summer’s morning, including a house”.He liked to think of the landscape as a friend, even as his mistress.