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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3419 times as art)
avg rating 3.95 — 459,024 ratings — published 1972
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2823 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 483,575 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 — 354,345 ratings — published 2012
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 1915 times as art)
avg rating 3.88 — 390,483 ratings — published 1979
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1656 times as art)
avg rating 3.97 — 126,218 ratings — published 2002
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 1455 times as art)
avg rating 3.78 — 110,645 ratings — published 1994
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 1233 times as art)
avg rating 3.85 — 240,064 ratings — published 2005
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 1226 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 172,002 ratings — published 1997
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 1224 times as art)
avg rating 3.94 — 799,297 ratings — published 1999
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 1129 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 117,163 ratings — published 1914
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 1070 times as art)
avg rating 3.83 — 96,527 ratings — published 1912
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Paperback)
by (shelved 981 times as art)
avg rating 4.06 — 22,753 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 — 126,851 ratings — published 2023
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 935 times as art)
avg rating 3.94 — 101,357 ratings — published 2023
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 923 times as art)
avg rating 3.62 — 73,823 ratings — published 2008
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 913 times as art)
avg rating 3.87 — 60,426 ratings — published 1973
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 900 times as art)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,087,682 ratings — published 2013
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 856 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,776 ratings — published 2002
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 852 times as art)
avg rating 3.91 — 17,216 ratings — published 1963
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 835 times as art)
avg rating 3.82 — 69,890 ratings — published 2004
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 824 times as art)
avg rating 4.17 — 137,742 ratings — published 2017
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 796 times as art)
avg rating 4.00 — 135,462 ratings — published 1993
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 789 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 24,255 ratings — published 2016
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 782 times as art)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,700 ratings — published 1995
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 770 times as art)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,492 ratings — published 1988
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 750 times as art)
avg rating 3.81 — 46,807 ratings — published 1926
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 715 times as art)
avg rating 3.79 — 74,325 ratings — published 2003
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 706 times as art)
avg rating 4.21 — 384,845 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 — 15,633 ratings — published 2012
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 694 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 73,544 ratings — published 1954
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 682 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 25,702 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 — 64,436 ratings — published 2014
History of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 653 times as art)
avg rating 3.77 — 41,105 ratings — published 1962
The Art Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 647 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 28,738 ratings — published 1929
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 603 times as art)
avg rating 4.09 — 99,892 ratings — published 1961
The Story of Art Without Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 599 times as art)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,207 ratings — published 2022
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 587 times as art)
avg rating 3.75 — 37,429 ratings — published 1980
Leonardo's Notebooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 580 times as art)
avg rating 4.00 — 54,826 ratings — published 1519
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 570 times as art)
avg rating 3.77 — 98,231 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 — 26,140 ratings — published 1936
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 533 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 81,338 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 — 32,339 ratings — published 2023
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 528 times as art)
avg rating 4.18 — 33,322 ratings — published 2011
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 521 times as art)
avg rating 3.79 — 34,470 ratings — published 1550
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 514 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 37,305 ratings — published 2016
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 507 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 40,439 ratings — published 2002
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 505 times as art)
avg rating 4.27 — 21,269 ratings — published 2018
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 499 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 33,829 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 — 49,913 ratings — published 1975
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 478 times as art)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,643 ratings — published 2007
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
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