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 Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse
Haunted
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Van Gogh: The Life
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
The Passion of Artemisia
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)
Lust for Life
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

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantThe Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
Art & Artists in Fiction
935 books — 1,106 voters
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierStained Glass Summer by Mindy HardwickThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerBluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
Books about artists
79 books — 24 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 — 6 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëGoblin Market by Christina RossettiKatherine by Anya SetonLizzie Siddal by Lucinda HawksleyRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Pre-Raphaelite Covers
133 books — 21 voters

creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting to live our lives as artists. i’ve carried the shame of being a ‘creative’ since i came to the planet; have been asked to be something different, more, less my whole life. thank spirit, my wisdom is deeper than my shame, and i listened to who i was. i want to say to all the creatives who have been taught to believe who you are is not enough for this world, taught that a life of art will amount to n ...more
Nayyirah Waheed

Seth Godin
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator. What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, ...more
Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

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