Where to Turn: 15 Artists Share Their Favorite Sources of Inspiration

Reading in the Garden 1915 Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky

Every artist we know has an impressive library of books about art or favorite artists they admire or even books of philosophy to which they turn repeatedly when searching for ideas or inspiration. Some books are perennial sources of inspiration and can be found in almost everyone’s collection. Others are a bit more obscure, hard to find or simply unknown to us. Often, the best way to find a new favorite reference book is word of mouth, so we thought we should ask 13 of our contributing artists what their favorite sources of inspiration are. All books and titles are linked to Amazon to make it easy to add them to your art library. What are your favorites? (The Artist’s Road is an Amazon Associate and may earn from qualifying purchases made from these links.)