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 Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
The Noisy Paint Box
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse
Haunted
Van Gogh: The Life
The Passion of Artemisia
The Agony and the Ecstasy
My Friends
Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)
The Romanovs by Robert K. MassieNicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. MassieCatherine the Great by Robert K. MassieThe Quiche of Death by M.C. BeatonThe Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
Dead in 2019: The Authors We Lost
214 books — 20 voters
Catapult Soul by Brian CelioNight Street by Kristel ThornellThe Mask Carver's Son by Alyson RichmanSummer in February by Jonathan SmithAn Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Artist Novels
18 books — 4 voters

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett JohnsonThe Dot by Peter H. ReynoldsMouse Paint by Ellen Stoll WalshIsh by Peter H. ReynoldsArt & Max by David Wiesner
Children Books About Art
277 books — 159 voters
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakThe Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric CarleMadeline by Ludwig BemelmansThe Cat in the Hat by Dr. SeussDr. Julie Visits Cowboy Mike and Winston by Michael Eastwood
Favorite picture books
550 books — 382 voters

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?

Pablo Picasso
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
Pablo Picasso

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