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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.34 — 314,101 ratings — published 2000
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.24 — 109,709 ratings — published 1994
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as art-writing)
avg rating 3.97 — 116,333 ratings — published 2002
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.21 — 31,590 ratings — published 1986
Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
by (shelved 4 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,288 ratings — published 2016
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.00 — 130,675 ratings — published 1993
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-writing)
avg rating 3.87 — 55,666 ratings — published 1973
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,704 ratings — published 2006
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-writing)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,061 ratings — published 1980
Agnes Martin: Writings / Schriften (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.53 — 186 ratings — published 1998
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
by (shelved 3 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,528 ratings — published 2010
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.49 — 13,217 ratings — published 2018
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,676 ratings — published 2003
Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.41 — 370 ratings — published 2019
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-writing)
avg rating 3.96 — 118,396 ratings — published 2002
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-writing)
avg rating 3.96 — 331,211 ratings — published 2012
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,665 ratings — published 1918
How to Write About Contemporary Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 560 ratings — published 2014
Matisse on Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.29 — 87 ratings — published 1978
Visual Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 684 ratings — published 1969
Invisible Ink: A Practical Guide to Building Stories That Resonate (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,506 ratings — published 2010
Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.19 — 211 ratings — published 2005
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 20,662 ratings — published 2016
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 21,432 ratings — published 2005
What Artists Wear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,493 ratings — published
Handiwork (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.17 — 615 ratings — published 2020
Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 882 ratings — published 1994
Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 3.97 — 742 ratings — published 2013
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.23 — 5,906 ratings — published 1998
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,492 ratings — published 2012
How to Be an Artist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,812 ratings — published 2020
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.21 — 101,502 ratings — published 2014
A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 309 ratings — published 2019
Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 3.96 — 605 ratings — published 1985
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 3.65 — 20,936 ratings — published 2013
Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 3.64 — 983 ratings — published 2017
What We See When We Read (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 3.70 — 5,935 ratings — published 2014
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 3.98 — 27,453 ratings — published 1940
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,114 ratings — published 2007
Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,131 ratings — published 1990
About Looking (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,201 ratings — published 1980
Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 130 ratings — published 1999
Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics (California Studies in the History of Art)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,685 ratings — published 1968
A Short Guide to Writing About Art (The Short Guide Series)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 3.94 — 821 ratings — published 1981
Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,362 ratings — published 2017
Understanding a Photograph (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,545 ratings — published 2013
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,195 ratings — published 1966
Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,000 ratings — published 2011
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,042 ratings — published 1957
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-writing)
avg rating 3.94 — 427,968 ratings — published 1972
“Art is fire plus algebra.”
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“I don't find perfection especially interesting. Art is not all about refinement and formal accomplishment. It is about passion and imagination and courage and these things that I didn't understand when I was kid being taught the rules. I realized that a novel could be. . .art could be. . . what I wanted to make it if I could pull it off.”
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