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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3378 times as art)
avg rating 3.94 — 453,625 ratings — published 1972
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2792 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 478,678 ratings — published 1950
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 1998 times as art)
avg rating 3.97 — 349,878 ratings — published 2012
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 1902 times as art)
avg rating 3.87 — 387,261 ratings — published 1979
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1641 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,484 ratings — published 2002
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 1432 times as art)
avg rating 3.77 — 108,110 ratings — published 1994
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 1230 times as art)
avg rating 3.85 — 237,987 ratings — published 2005
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 1220 times as art)
avg rating 3.93 — 794,963 ratings — published 1999
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 1218 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 169,827 ratings — published 1997
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 1115 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 114,927 ratings — published 1914
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 1066 times as art)
avg rating 3.83 — 94,615 ratings — published 1912
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Paperback)
by (shelved 967 times as art)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,910 ratings — published 2010
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 921 times as art)
avg rating 3.91 — 121,122 ratings — published 2023
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 916 times as art)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,842 ratings — published 2008
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 911 times as art)
avg rating 3.94 — 97,871 ratings — published 2023
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 902 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 59,241 ratings — published 1973
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 896 times as art)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,079,391 ratings — published 2013
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 847 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,323 ratings — published 2002
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 842 times as art)
avg rating 3.89 — 16,467 ratings — published 1963
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 829 times as art)
avg rating 3.81 — 69,068 ratings — published 2004
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 815 times as art)
avg rating 4.17 — 135,219 ratings — published 2017
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 791 times as art)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,452 ratings — published 1993
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 781 times as art)
avg rating 3.88 — 51,053 ratings — published 1995
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 777 times as art)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,458 ratings — published 2016
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 763 times as art)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,843 ratings — published 1988
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 745 times as art)
avg rating 3.81 — 46,326 ratings — published 1926
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 708 times as art)
avg rating 3.79 — 73,858 ratings — published 2003
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 706 times as art)
avg rating 4.21 — 378,871 ratings — published 2010
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 693 times as art)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,231 ratings — published 2012
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 690 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 73,125 ratings — published 1954
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 675 times as art)
avg rating 3.95 — 25,366 ratings — published 1943
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 674 times as art)
avg rating 4.07 — 63,828 ratings — published 2014
History of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 649 times as art)
avg rating 3.77 — 40,772 ratings — published 1962
The Art Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 642 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 28,316 ratings — published 1929
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 602 times as art)
avg rating 4.09 — 99,318 ratings — published 1961
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 585 times as art)
avg rating 3.74 — 37,215 ratings — published 1980
The Story of Art Without Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 581 times as art)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,921 ratings — published 2022
Leonardo's Notebooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 576 times as art)
avg rating 4.00 — 54,508 ratings — published 1519
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 567 times as art)
avg rating 3.77 — 97,180 ratings — published 2012
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 534 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,239 ratings — published 1936
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 528 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 80,203 ratings — published 1980
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 528 times as art)
avg rating 4.18 — 32,333 ratings — published 2011
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (ebook)
by (shelved 517 times as art)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,759 ratings — published 2023
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 516 times as art)
avg rating 3.78 — 33,664 ratings — published 1550
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 511 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 36,255 ratings — published 2016
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 501 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 39,684 ratings — published 2002
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 500 times as art)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,521 ratings — published 2018
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 498 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 32,679 ratings — published 1933
The Power of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 476 times as art)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,806 ratings — published 2006
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
by (shelved 475 times as art)
avg rating 3.85 — 49,287 ratings — published 1975
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
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“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
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