Artists


Just Kids
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
Leonardo da Vinci
I'll Give You the Sun
The Noisy Paint Box
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse
Haunted
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
Van Gogh: The Life
The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Passion of Artemisia
My Friends
Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)
A Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboDeadly Election by Arthur CrandonFirst I Love You by Genevieve DeweyBoot by Charles L. TempletonFound Money by Peter Watson Jenkins
Little Known Authors Worth Reading
4,012 books — 3,212 voters
Leonardo's Swans by Karen EssexThe Second Mrs. Gioconda by E.L. KonigsburgThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownThe Smile by Donna Jo NapoliThe Far Side Gallery 3 by Gary Larson
Da Vinci Covers
20 books — 6 voters

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierDaughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini TaylorKnight of the Purple Ribbon by Jennifer Leigh WellsNight Street by Kristel Thornell
Paint It Black
20 books — 5 voters
Mythic Adventures by Ayn Cates SullivanThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantFake Like Me by Barbara Bourland
Fiction about Art
28 books — 15 voters

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda NochlinThe Lives of the Artists by Giorgio VasariIntroductory Lectures on Aesthetics by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelReflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and S... by Johann Joachim WinckelmannThe Politics of Vision by Linda Nochlin
Foundations of Art History
38 books — 7 voters
The Noisy Paint Box by Barb RosenstockThe Iridescence of Birds by Patricia MacLachlanA Splash of Red by Jen BryantRadiant Child by Javaka SteptoeFrida by Jonah Winter
Picture Books About Artists
99 books — 17 voters

Fyodor Dostoevsky
You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Netochka Nezvanova

Ursula K. Le Guin
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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