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The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 466,746 ratings — published 1950
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 440,084 ratings — published 1972
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 340,139 ratings — published 2012
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,052 ratings — published 2002
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 381,490 ratings — published 1979
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as arts)
avg rating 3.86 — 167,814 ratings — published 1997
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as arts)
avg rating 4.34 — 320,641 ratings — published 2000
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 119,830 ratings — published 2002
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as arts)
avg rating 4.10 — 57,631 ratings — published 1988
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as arts)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,323 ratings — published 2012
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,342 ratings — published 1973
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 87,728 ratings — published 2023
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as arts)
avg rating 4.18 — 130,382 ratings — published 2017
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as arts)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,007,160 ratings — published 2008
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 112,255 ratings — published 1914
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as arts)
avg rating 3.81 — 45,535 ratings — published 1926
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as arts)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,062,457 ratings — published 1601
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as arts)
avg rating 4.21 — 360,620 ratings — published 2010
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 4.06 — 148,817 ratings — published 1992
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 3.77 — 105,356 ratings — published 1994
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,202,039 ratings — published 2009
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as arts)
avg rating 3.88 — 107,680 ratings — published 2007
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 21 times as arts)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,760,650 ratings — published 2010
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as arts)
avg rating 3.82 — 67,895 ratings — published 2004
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 236,084 ratings — published 2005
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,932 ratings — published 1988
How Music Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 28,883 ratings — published 2014
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.83 — 93,167 ratings — published 1912
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,973 ratings — published 2007
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.53 — 40,560 ratings — published 2010
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 132,411 ratings — published 1993
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 — 24,739 ratings — published 1936
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,160 ratings — published 1995
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.17 — 31,531 ratings — published 2011
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,935 ratings — published 2007
Last Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,800 ratings — published 2009
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.79 — 112,034 ratings — published 2004
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.84 — 168,449 ratings — published 2008
Leonardo's Notebooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 53,732 ratings — published 1519
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 61,912 ratings — published 2014
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,288 ratings — published 1999
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.93 — 784,461 ratings — published 1999
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 4.09 — 518,280 ratings — published 1968
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 4.27 — 125,183 ratings — published 1929
Johnny Mnemonic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 3.79 — 12,261 ratings — published 1981
Art as Therapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,646 ratings — published 2013
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,050,797 ratings — published 2013
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 3.61 — 71,659 ratings — published 2008
Clockwork Orange (ScreenPress Film Screenplays)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,279 ratings — published 1972
“The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed... because people are changed by art – enriched, ennobled, encouraged – they then act in a way that may affect the course of events... by the way they vote, they behave, the way they think.”
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“The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.”
― Utilitarianism
― Utilitarianism
