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The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 484,956 ratings — published 1950
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 460,340 ratings — published 1972
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 127,164 ratings — published 2002
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 355,460 ratings — published 2012
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as arts)
avg rating 3.88 — 391,312 ratings — published 1979
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as arts)
avg rating 3.86 — 172,706 ratings — published 1997
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as arts)
avg rating 4.34 — 329,329 ratings — published 2000
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,090 ratings — published 2002
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 60,618 ratings — published 1973
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as arts)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,694 ratings — published 1988
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as arts)
avg rating 4.17 — 138,375 ratings — published 2017
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 102,144 ratings — published 2023
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 15,782 ratings — published 2012
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 117,863 ratings — published 1914
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as arts)
avg rating 4.21 — 386,315 ratings — published 2010
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as arts)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,325,578 ratings — published 2008
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as arts)
avg rating 3.81 — 46,955 ratings — published 1926
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as arts)
avg rating 3.78 — 111,457 ratings — published 1994
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as arts)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,095,312 ratings — published 1601
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 3.83 — 97,101 ratings — published 1912
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 3.82 — 70,014 ratings — published 2004
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 157,691 ratings — published 1992
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,358,338 ratings — published 2009
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as arts)
avg rating 3.88 — 109,366 ratings — published 2007
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 21 times as arts)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,896,266 ratings — published 2010
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,872 ratings — published 1995
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 81,747 ratings — published 1980
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,814 ratings — published 2007
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 135,618 ratings — published 1993
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 240,727 ratings — published 2005
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.09 — 537,817 ratings — published 1968
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,485 ratings — published 1988
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 26,502 ratings — published 1936
Art as Therapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,011 ratings — published 2013
Clockwork Orange (ScreenPress Film Screenplays)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,497 ratings — published 1972
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.18 — 33,734 ratings — published 2011
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,219 ratings — published 2007
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.53 — 40,796 ratings — published 2010
Last Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,933 ratings — published 2009
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.79 — 112,523 ratings — published 2004
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.84 — 169,343 ratings — published 2008
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.91 — 29,048 ratings — published 1999
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (ebook)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,973 ratings — published 2023
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.91 — 128,394 ratings — published 2023
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,376 ratings — published 2023
Leonardo's Notebooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 54,854 ratings — published 1519
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.62 — 74,013 ratings — published 2008
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 800,525 ratings — published 1999
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.24 — 115,752 ratings — published 1994
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 4.26 — 135,716 ratings — published 1929
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
― The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
“Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth.”
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