Aesthetics

Ludwig van Beethoven, A selection from Beethoven's Letters

Walter Benjamin
A selection from The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Sarah Bernhardt
A selection from My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt

Charlotte Brontë, Biographical Notice of Ellis And Acton Bell

Enrico Caruso, A selection from The Art of Singing

Frédéric Chopin
Selected Letters of Frédéric Chopin

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, The Interpretation of Symbols

Salvador Dalí
A selection from The Secret Life of Salvador Dali

Emily Dickinson, A selection from Letters of Emily Dickinson

Paul Gauguin, A selection from Noa-Noa

Vincent van Gogh, A selection from van Gogh's Letters

Woody Guthrie, Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax

Charles Ives, A selection from Essays Before a Sonata

Henry James, A selection from The Art of the Novel

Wassily Kandinsky, A selection from Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Leonardo da Vinci
A selection from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

Franz Liszt, A selection from The Life of Chopin

Michelangelo, Selected Sonnets on Art & the Artist

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A selection from The Letters Of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Anaïs Nin, Preface to the book, Little Birds

Pablo Picasso, A selection from Picasso Speaks

Edgar Allan Poe, The essay The Philosophy of Composition

Edgar Allan Poe, The essay Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales

Ranier Maria Rilke, A selection from Letters to a Young Poet

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
A selection from the book, Principles of Orchestration

John Ruskin, A selection from The Poetry of Architecture

George Sand
A selection from The Letters of George Sand to Gustave Flaubert

Friedrich Schiller
A selection from On the Aesthetic Education of Man

Percy Bysshe Shelley, A selection from A Defence of Poetry

Konstantin Stanislavski, A selection from My Life in Art

Gertrude Stein, A selection from Narrative

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
A selection from Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony

Mark Twain, A selection from the essay The Turning Point of My Life

Paul Valéry, A selection from The Course in Poetics

Richard Wagner, A selection from On Conducting

Oscar Wilde, Essays on Aesthetics

Virginia Woolf, A selection from A Room of One's Own

Frank Lloyd Wright
A selection from the essay, Studies and Executed Buildings

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