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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3419 times as art)
avg rating 3.95 — 459,051 ratings — published 1972
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2823 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 483,596 ratings — published 1950
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 2023 times as art)
avg rating 3.97 — 354,365 ratings — published 2012
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 1915 times as art)
avg rating 3.88 — 390,498 ratings — published 1979
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1656 times as art)
avg rating 3.97 — 126,234 ratings — published 2002
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 1455 times as art)
avg rating 3.78 — 110,658 ratings — published 1994
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 1233 times as art)
avg rating 3.85 — 240,076 ratings — published 2005
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 1226 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 172,014 ratings — published 1997
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 1224 times as art)
avg rating 3.94 — 799,318 ratings — published 1999
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 1129 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 117,175 ratings — published 1914
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 1070 times as art)
avg rating 3.83 — 96,535 ratings — published 1912
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Paperback)
by (shelved 981 times as art)
avg rating 4.06 — 22,764 ratings — published 2010
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 943 times as art)
avg rating 3.91 — 126,886 ratings — published 2023
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 935 times as art)
avg rating 3.94 — 101,372 ratings — published 2023
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 923 times as art)
avg rating 3.62 — 73,829 ratings — published 2008
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 913 times as art)
avg rating 3.87 — 60,433 ratings — published 1973
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 900 times as art)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,087,708 ratings — published 2013
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 856 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,781 ratings — published 2002
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 852 times as art)
avg rating 3.91 — 17,222 ratings — published 1963
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 835 times as art)
avg rating 3.82 — 69,896 ratings — published 2004
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 824 times as art)
avg rating 4.17 — 137,754 ratings — published 2017
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 796 times as art)
avg rating 4.00 — 135,467 ratings — published 1993
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 789 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 24,257 ratings — published 2016
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 782 times as art)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,701 ratings — published 1995
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 770 times as art)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,496 ratings — published 1988
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 750 times as art)
avg rating 3.81 — 46,811 ratings — published 1926
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 715 times as art)
avg rating 3.79 — 74,327 ratings — published 2003
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 706 times as art)
avg rating 4.21 — 384,874 ratings — published 2010
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 696 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 15,634 ratings — published 2012
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 694 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 73,547 ratings — published 1954
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 682 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 25,705 ratings — published 1943
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 681 times as art)
avg rating 4.07 — 64,440 ratings — published 2014
History of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 653 times as art)
avg rating 3.77 — 41,107 ratings — published 1962
The Art Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 647 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 28,740 ratings — published 1929
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 603 times as art)
avg rating 4.09 — 99,893 ratings — published 1961
The Story of Art Without Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 599 times as art)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,210 ratings — published 2022
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 587 times as art)
avg rating 3.75 — 37,430 ratings — published 1980
Leonardo's Notebooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 580 times as art)
avg rating 4.00 — 54,827 ratings — published 1519
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 570 times as art)
avg rating 3.77 — 98,238 ratings — published 2012
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 540 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 26,148 ratings — published 1936
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 533 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 81,346 ratings — published 1980
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (ebook)
by (shelved 532 times as art)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,350 ratings — published 2023
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 528 times as art)
avg rating 4.18 — 33,328 ratings — published 2011
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 521 times as art)
avg rating 3.79 — 34,475 ratings — published 1550
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 514 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 37,313 ratings — published 2016
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 507 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 40,445 ratings — published 2002
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 505 times as art)
avg rating 4.27 — 21,274 ratings — published 2018
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 499 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 33,838 ratings — published 1933
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
by (shelved 479 times as art)
avg rating 3.85 — 49,918 ratings — published 1975
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 478 times as art)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,648 ratings — published 2007
“I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.”
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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
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