Arts


The Story of Art
Ways of Seeing
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
The Art Book
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
The War of Art
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
On Photography
Just Kids
Leonardo da Vinci
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college. ...more
Kurt Vonnegut

Oliver Sacks
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.
Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

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