Books like Learning by heart by Jan Steward

Steal Like an Artist is a visually engaging guide that translates Austin Kleon’s viral lecture into actionable advice for writers, artists, designers, entrepreneurs and anyone who wants to make things in the digital age.

Elizabeth Gilbert shares her personal creative process, guiding readers to embrace curiosity, overcome fear, and unlock hidden inspiration through practical attitudes and habits for a more creative, passionate life.

The Artist’s Way offers a practical, twelve‑week guide of creative exercises and reflective practices designed to help writers, musicians, painters and other artists unlock and sustain their creative potential.

A curated collection of the daily habits and routines that powered some of history’s most influential artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers.

Creative Confidence shows how every person can unlock and apply their creative potential in business and everyday life, using insights and examples from IDEO’s design practice.

Presents a set of basic exercises designed to release creative potential and tap into the special abilities of the brain's right hemisphere.

How to turn whimsical ideas into tangible successes by building habits that turn imagination into real outcomes.

In his ground-breaking study on the life and work of some of our greatest artists, Dr Philip Sandblom explores the intriguing connections between illness, art and creativity. It deals with specific ailments - tuberculosis, sensory defects, congenital malformations and many others - and inquiries into the ways in which they inform and influence the creative personality. Dr Sandblom also goes on to discuss the effects of mental illness, drug addiction and severe pain. Many outstanding talents are discussed in this enlarged and revised edition - among them, the authors Byron, Walter Scott, Dostoyevsky, Holderlin and William Styron, the artists Goya, Klee, Matisse and Monet and the composers Mozart, Robert Schumann and Beethoven. Dr Sandblom illustrates his arguments with scores and manuscripts as well as nearly 100 paintings and drawings (over 80 in black and white, with 12 colour plates).

The Second edition of The Creative Mind has been updated to include recent developments in artificial intelligence, with a new preface, introduction and conclusion by the author.