How to Be an Artist

The New York Times Bestseller

"I wish I had read these rules forty years ago and carried them around like a bible. By chance or design I''ve followed most of them at some point but it took me a lifetime as an artist to find what worked. They are the generous, loving, enthusiastic, bullshit-free advice of a master communicator, just reading them makes me want to charge back into the studio" - Grayson Perry

"Being an artist is a lonely pursuit - twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for the rest of your life. Most of the time it hurts. This book will help the pain" - Tracey Emin

One of Elizabeth Gilbert''s 2020 Quarantine Book Recommendations

"Joy is palpable in these pages. We need such thinking right now" - Apollo Magazine

As the witty and passionate chief art critic for New York magazine, Jerry Saltz is often approached by artists, both ama