My all time favorites are:
O'Keefe and Stieglitz:An American Romance by Benita Eisler
Intimate Memories: The Autobiography of Mabel Dodge Luhan by Lois Rudnick
The Landscape of Memory by Milton Meltzer
And a few others:
Notes for a Young Painter by Hiram Williams ISBN 0-13-624115-8
Homemade Esthetics: observations on art and taste by Clement Greenberg ISBN 0-19-512433-2
Meditations from the Mat by Rolf Gates and Katrina Kenison ISBN 0-385-72154-4
A Path with Heart by Jack Kornfield ISBN 0-553-37211-4
The Spirit of Abstract Exressionism by Elaine de Kooning ISBN 0-8076-1337-1
Fate of the Gesture by Carter RatcliffISBN 0-8133-3544-2
The Art Spirit by Robert HenriISBN 0-06-430138-9
Callings by Greg LeVoyISBN 0-609-80370-0
Actually, I would have to say I hoard books. I have them everywhere; under my bed, stuffed behind other books in bookcases, and stacked in my closet. I have a vast collection of photography and artist monolog books and all types of poetry books.
Here are a few quotes about books:
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. Theodore Parker
Our house was a temple to The Book. We owned thousands, nay millions of books. They lined the walls, filled the cupboards, and turned the floor into a maze far more complex than Hampton Court's. Books ruled our lives. They were our demigods. Nick Bantock
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed on and digested. Francis Bacon
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. Elizabeth Hardwick
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