12 Top art books like Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

By: Austin Kleon

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

You don't need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That's the message from Austin Kleon, …

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1. An Object of Beauty

By: Steve Martin

3.77

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groome… read more

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  • art
"she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses."

-Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty

"…when the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable…"

-Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty

"You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it."

-Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty

"...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs."

-Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty

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2. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

By: Betty Edwards

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

When Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • self help
"Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s face it, frivolous—especially the visual arts, with their conno…"

-Betty Edwards, The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

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3. Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

By: Ted Orland , David Bayles

3.87

Format: 237 pages,

"This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • writing
  • self help
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4. Good Faeries/Bad Faeries

By: Brian Froud , None

3.23

Format: 403 pages,

Since he illustrated the Faeries in 1978, Brian Froud has been fascinated by faery lore. Now, 20 ye… read more

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  • art
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5. How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum

By: Keri Smith

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of Wreck This Journal, an interactive guide for exploring and documenting the art a… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • self help
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6. Wall and Piece

By: Banksy

4.83

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Banksy, Britain's now-legendary "guerilla" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridg… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • design
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7. The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)

By: Daniel Silva

3.89

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Gabriel Allon had a simple but brutal job: he tracked down and eliminated Israel's terrorist enemie… read more

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8. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

By: Austin Kleon

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

You don't need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That's the message from Austin Kleon, … read more

Similar categories in Austin Kleon's Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative book and Austin Kleon's Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

  • art
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • writing
  • business
  • self help

9. Ways of Seeing

By: John Berger

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

John Berger's Classic Text on Art John Berger's Ways of Seeingis one of the most stimulating and th… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • design
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10. Griffin and Sabine (Griffin & Sabine #1)

By: Nick Bantock

3.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It all started with a mysterious and seemingly innocent postcard, but from that point nothing was t… read more

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  • art
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11. Drawing from Memory

By: Allen Say

4.01

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Caldecott Medalist Allen Say presents a stunning graphic novel chronicling his journey as an artist… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction

12. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more

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13. The Story of Art

By: E.H. Gombrich

3.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Renowned not only as the best concise introduction to art history, but also as a classic of art his… read more

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14. PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives

By: Frank Warren

3.76

Format: 85 pages, Hardcover

New York TimesBestseller The project that captured a nation's imagination. The instructions were si… read more

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15. Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

By: Hugh MacLeod

3.82

Format: 384 pages,

When Hugh MacLeod was a struggling young copywriter, living in a YMCA, he started to doodle on the … read more

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16. The King's Agent

By: Donna Russo Morin

4.42

Format: None pages,

"Russo Morin skillfully blends historical fiction and fantasy in surprising ways. She draws effortl… read more

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17. Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art

By: Jennifer New

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Who hasn't, at one time or other, kept a journal? The impulse to record our daily lives on paper is… read more

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18. The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living

By: Julia Cameron

4.02

Format: 360 pages,

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19. The Paris Novel

By: Ruth Reichl

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Par… read more

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"That is the most expensive spice in the world. It comes from the Valley of Flowers, where everyone's hands are red from separating the saffron from the blossoms. Each flower has just three strands, s…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The fat was bubbling in a pot on the stove. The potatoes went in, were snatched out, then plunged back in. They emerged crisp and golden; Richard sprinkled them with salt and piled them on a platter,…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The oysters arrived on a deep bed of ice. She had never eaten an oyster, and she stared down at the platter. A ruffle of black encircled each opalescent heart; she thought of orchids. Triangles of le…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"A waiter set a small tart of caramelized pears before each of them and added a dab of licorice ice cream. Next came bananas topped with passion fruit and black pepper, little pirouettes of pleasure. …"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

Cover of Lovers at the Museum by Isabel Allende

20. Lovers at the Museum

By: Isabel Allende

3.48

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wind Knows My Name comes a mesmerizing tale of tw… read more

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  • art
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21. Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun (Lab Series)

By: Carla Sonheim

4.10

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

Carla Sonheim is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative proj… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction

8 Best nonfiction books like Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon

Transform Your Habits

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Betty Edwards

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Ted Orland , David Bayles

3.87

Transform Your Habits

How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum

Keri Smith

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Wall and Piece

Banksy

4.83

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5 Top fiction books like An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin

Transform Your Habits

An Object of Beauty

Steve Martin

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Good Faeries/Bad Faeries

Brian Froud , None

3.23

Transform Your Habits

Griffin and Sabine (Griffin & Sabine #1)

Nick Bantock

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Gashlycrumb Tinies (The Vinegar Works, #1)

Edward Gorey

4.25

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