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Artists Books
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Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as artists)
avg rating 4.21 — 371,043 ratings — published 2010
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as artists)
avg rating 3.93 — 790,120 ratings — published 1999
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as artists)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,874 ratings — published 2016
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as artists)
avg rating 4.17 — 133,387 ratings — published 2017
I'll Give You the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as artists)
avg rating 4.15 — 361,136 ratings — published 2014
The Noisy Paint Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as artists)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,501 ratings — published 2014
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as artists)
avg rating 4.08 — 113,888 ratings — published 1914
The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as artists)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,970 ratings — published 2014
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as artists)
avg rating 3.59 — 112,571 ratings — published 2005
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as artists)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,781 ratings — published 1995
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as artists)
avg rating 4.18 — 31,993 ratings — published 2011
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as artists)
avg rating 4.09 — 98,575 ratings — published 1961
The Passion of Artemisia (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as artists)
avg rating 3.91 — 20,283 ratings — published 2001
My Friends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as artists)
avg rating 4.32 — 526,169 ratings — published 2025
Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as artists)
avg rating 3.90 — 292,264 ratings — published 2005
Lust for Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as artists)
avg rating 4.28 — 32,240 ratings — published 1934
Duma Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as artists)
avg rating 3.99 — 139,603 ratings — published 2008
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as artists)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,337,968 ratings — published 2017
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as artists)
avg rating 3.87 — 31,123 ratings — published 2016
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as artists)
avg rating 3.97 — 345,971 ratings — published 2012
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as artists)
avg rating 4.02 — 75,606 ratings — published 1983
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as artists)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,484,360 ratings — published 2019
Drawing from Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as artists)
avg rating 4.00 — 57,669 ratings — published 2011
The Swan Thieves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as artists)
avg rating 3.58 — 35,759 ratings — published
Leonardo's Notebooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as artists)
avg rating 4.00 — 54,207 ratings — published 1519
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as artists)
avg rating 3.78 — 211,330 ratings — published 2019
Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as artists)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,327 ratings — published 2016
I Always Loved You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as artists)
avg rating 3.67 — 5,726 ratings — published 2014
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as artists)
avg rating 3.77 — 96,541 ratings — published 2012
Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as artists)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,875 ratings — published 2010
The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)
by (shelved 12 times as artists)
avg rating 4.07 — 82,809 ratings — published 2014
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as artists)
avg rating 4.06 — 635,853 ratings — published 2014
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as artists)
avg rating 3.66 — 21,531 ratings — published 2013
The Woman Upstairs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as artists)
avg rating 3.31 — 33,792 ratings — published 2013
By the Light of the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as artists)
avg rating 3.89 — 27,913 ratings — published 2002
Take My Picture (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as artists)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,970 ratings — published 2007
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as artists)
avg rating 3.92 — 35,732 ratings — published 2016
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as artists)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,589 ratings — published 2002
How to be Both (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as artists)
avg rating 3.66 — 28,201 ratings — published 2014
Confess (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as artists)
avg rating 4.05 — 627,231 ratings — published 2015
Muscling Through (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as artists)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,498 ratings — published 2011
How to Beat Up Anybody: An Instructional and Inspirational Karate Book by the World Champion – The Satirical Self-Defense Comedy from the Star of 30 Rock (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as artists)
avg rating 3.27 — 751 ratings — published 2010
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as artists)
avg rating 4.19 — 215,391 ratings — published 2000
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as artists)
avg rating 3.76 — 140,428 ratings — published 1922
The Lady and the Unicorn (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as artists)
avg rating 3.71 — 47,977 ratings — published 2003
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as artists)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,916,012 ratings — published 2019
The Italian Teacher (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as artists)
avg rating 3.66 — 7,889 ratings — published 2018
Pocket Full of Colors: The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as artists)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,370 ratings — published 2017
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as artists)
avg rating 4.07 — 8,573 ratings — published 2015
A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #7)
by (shelved 10 times as artists)
avg rating 4.32 — 92,251 ratings — published 2011
“The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.
Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.
The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job.
Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin.
The job is not the work.”
― Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.
The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job.
Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin.
The job is not the work.”
― Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“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.”
― Netochka Nezvanova
― Netochka Nezvanova
