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The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 484,849 ratings — published 1950
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 460,233 ratings — published 1972
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 127,087 ratings — published 2002
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 355,369 ratings — published 2012
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as arts)
avg rating 3.88 — 391,232 ratings — published 1979
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as arts)
avg rating 3.86 — 172,643 ratings — published 1997
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as arts)
avg rating 4.34 — 329,291 ratings — published 2000
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,061 ratings — published 2002
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 60,609 ratings — published 1973
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as arts)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,691 ratings — published 1988
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as arts)
avg rating 4.17 — 138,333 ratings — published 2017
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 102,104 ratings — published 2023
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 15,777 ratings — published 2012
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 117,819 ratings — published 1914
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as arts)
avg rating 4.21 — 386,213 ratings — published 2010
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as arts)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,324,402 ratings — published 2008
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as arts)
avg rating 3.81 — 46,947 ratings — published 1926
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as arts)
avg rating 3.78 — 111,394 ratings — published 1994
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as arts)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,095,229 ratings — published 1601
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 3.83 — 97,053 ratings — published 1912
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 3.82 — 70,008 ratings — published 2004
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 157,661 ratings — published 1992
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,357,687 ratings — published 2009
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as arts)
avg rating 3.88 — 109,359 ratings — published 2007
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 21 times as arts)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,895,680 ratings — published 2010
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,872 ratings — published 1995
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 81,717 ratings — published 1980
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,806 ratings — published 2007
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 135,613 ratings — published 1993
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 240,668 ratings — published 2005
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.09 — 537,757 ratings — published 1968
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,477 ratings — published 1988
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 26,474 ratings — published 1936
Art as Therapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,004 ratings — published 2013
Clockwork Orange (ScreenPress Film Screenplays)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,495 ratings — published 1972
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.18 — 33,702 ratings — published 2011
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,215 ratings — published 2007
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.53 — 40,794 ratings — published 2010
Last Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,932 ratings — published 2009
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.79 — 112,519 ratings — published 2004
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.84 — 169,342 ratings — published 2008
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.91 — 29,035 ratings — published 1999
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (ebook)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,928 ratings — published 2023
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.91 — 128,306 ratings — published 2023
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,371 ratings — published 2023
Leonardo's Notebooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 54,852 ratings — published 1519
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.62 — 74,004 ratings — published 2008
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 800,402 ratings — published 1999
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.24 — 115,737 ratings — published 1994
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 4.26 — 135,672 ratings — published 1929
“Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth.”
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“You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
