The Complete Painter: Lessons from the Masters


Books and More: 5. Artists In Their Own Words
















This section has  two sub-sections -


5.1 Artists' Writings, Interviews with Artists, and Artist Video Clips

5.2 Compilations of Artists' Writings


Three asterisks *** denote free materials


5.1 Artists' Writings, Interviews with Artists, and Artist Video Clips


Ashton, Dore. Picasso on Art


Bacon, Francis. Fragments of a Portrait ***


Bacon's Last Interview ***


Francis Bacon Rare Interview ***


Baselitz, Georg. Georg Baselitz Talks about Farewell Bill ***


Bourgeois, Louise. No Tresspassing ***


da Vinci, Leonardo. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (volume 1)


da Vinci, Leonardo. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (volume 2)


Dalí, Salvador. Fifty Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship


Delacroix, Eugene and Hubert Wellington. Journal of Delacroix


Desiderio, Vincent. LCAD Vincent Desiderio Painting Demo ***


De Vliegher, Jan ***


Dumas, Marlene.  The Image as Burden ***


Emin, Tracy. What Do Artists Do All Day ***


Fischl, Eric. Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting ***


Freud, Lucian. An Exclusive Tour of Freud's Studio ***


Lopez Garcia, Antonio. Artists at the MFA ***


Lucian Freud's Rarest Interview ***


Gaugain, Paul. The Writings of a Savage


Henri, Robert. The Art Spirit


Hockney, David. David Hockney by David Hockney


________. I Am a Space Freak ***


________. Photoshop Is Boring ***


__________. Who Gets to Call It Art ***


Hopper, Edward and Deborah Lyons, Brian O'Doherty. Edward Hopper: A Journal of His Work


Kahlo, Frida, with an introduction by Carlos Fuentes. Diary of Frida Kahlo


Katz, Alex ***


Kiefer, Anselm ***


Klee, Paul. Diaries of Paul Klee


Krasner, Lee. Inside New York's Art World, Lee Krasner ***


Kuspit, Donald. Fischl: An Interview with Eric Fischl


Lundin, Norman, and David Brody. Norman Lundin: Interview in the Studio ***


__________David Brody and Bruce Gunther. Norman Lundin: Selections from Three Decades of Drawing and Painting


Matisse, Henri. Matisse on Art


Munch, Edvard. The Private Journals of Edvard Munch


Neel, Alice. Inside New York's Art World, Alice Neel ***


Perry, Grayson. Brilliant Ideas, Grayson Perry ***


Redon, Odilon. To Myself: Notes on Life, Art, and Artists


Richter, Gerhard. Gerhard Richter Painting ***


Gerhard Richter in the Studio ***


Richter, Gerhard, and Hans Ulbrich-Obrist. The Daily Practice of Painting


Shan, Ben. The Shape of Content


Sylvester, David. The Brutality of Fact: Interviews with Francis Bacon


Van Gogh, Vincent. Letters of Vincent Van Gogh


Whitney, Stanley. In the Studio with Stanley Whitney ***  



5.2 Compilations of Artists' Writings


Chipp, Herschel B. Theories of Modern Art


Goldwater, Robert, and Marco Treves. Artists on Art


Harrison, Charles, and Paul Wood. Art in Theory, 1648-1815


Harrison, Charles, and Paul Wood. Art in Theory, 1815-1900


Harrison, Charles, and Paul Wood. Art in Theory, 1900–2000












David Brody, 2019, after André Derain, Henri Matisse, 1905

From The Complete Painter: Lessons from the Masters, Lecture 31