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Art Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3102 times as art)
avg rating 3.94 — 425,758 ratings — published 1972
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2664 times as art)
avg rating 3.97 — 454,559 ratings — published 1950
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 1927 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 329,642 ratings — published 2012
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 1851 times as art)
avg rating 3.87 — 375,835 ratings — published 1979
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1527 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 118,056 ratings — published 2002
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 1362 times as art)
avg rating 3.77 — 102,165 ratings — published 1994
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 1211 times as art)
avg rating 3.85 — 234,024 ratings — published 2005
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 1187 times as art)
avg rating 3.93 — 773,739 ratings — published 1999
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 1168 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 165,630 ratings — published 1997
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 1065 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 109,260 ratings — published 1914
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 1028 times as art)
avg rating 3.83 — 91,691 ratings — published 1912
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
by (shelved 901 times as art)
avg rating 4.10 — 18,211 ratings — published 2010
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 877 times as art)
avg rating 3.61 — 70,336 ratings — published 2008
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 870 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,022,380 ratings — published 2013
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 838 times as art)
avg rating 3.87 — 55,299 ratings — published 1973
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 803 times as art)
avg rating 3.82 — 66,478 ratings — published 2004
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 798 times as art)
avg rating 3.97 — 115,796 ratings — published 2002
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 788 times as art)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,540 ratings — published 1971
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 784 times as art)
avg rating 3.97 — 75,257 ratings — published 2023
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 773 times as art)
avg rating 4.18 — 125,077 ratings — published 2017
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 761 times as art)
avg rating 4.00 — 130,362 ratings — published 1993
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 760 times as art)
avg rating 3.90 — 49,165 ratings — published 1995
The Art Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 734 times as art)
avg rating 3.93 — 82,274 ratings — published 2023
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 725 times as art)
avg rating 4.11 — 56,243 ratings — published 1988
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 716 times as art)
avg rating 4.02 — 20,382 ratings — published 2016
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 710 times as art)
avg rating 3.82 — 44,660 ratings — published 1926
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 681 times as art)
avg rating 3.80 — 72,047 ratings — published 2003
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 673 times as art)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,335 ratings — published 2012
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 670 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 71,466 ratings — published 1954
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 669 times as art)
avg rating 4.21 — 341,411 ratings — published 2010
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 656 times as art)
avg rating 4.09 — 59,740 ratings — published 2014
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 644 times as art)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,547 ratings — published 1943
History of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 629 times as art)
avg rating 3.78 — 38,842 ratings — published 1962
The Art Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 613 times as art)
avg rating 3.88 — 26,168 ratings — published 1929
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 577 times as art)
avg rating 4.09 — 94,964 ratings — published 1961
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 574 times as art)
avg rating 3.74 — 36,215 ratings — published 1980
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 554 times as art)
avg rating 3.76 — 92,673 ratings — published 2012
Leonardo's Notebooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 548 times as art)
avg rating 4.00 — 52,617 ratings — published 1519
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 499 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,829 ratings — published 1980
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 497 times as art)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,401 ratings — published 2011
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 495 times as art)
avg rating 3.77 — 32,866 ratings — published 1550
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 491 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,109 ratings — published 1936
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 491 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 33,771 ratings — published 2016
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 486 times as art)
avg rating 3.84 — 38,756 ratings — published 2002
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 482 times as art)
avg rating 4.28 — 19,817 ratings — published 2018
The Story of Art Without Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 478 times as art)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,944 ratings — published 2022
The Power of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 463 times as art)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,706 ratings — published 2006
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
by (shelved 460 times as art)
avg rating 3.84 — 48,284 ratings — published 1975
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 460 times as art)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,035 ratings — published 2007
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 454 times as art)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,285 ratings — published 1933
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
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“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.”
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