Art and Fear Author:David Bayles, Ted Orland An artist's survival guide, written by and for working artists. The authors explore the way art gets made, the reasons it doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way.
I read this little book in a matter of hours and cried. Cried, seriously, because I felt like all the parts of being an artist that are so hard for other people to understand were addressed so eloquently here. It helped me immensely in getting "un-blocked" and was a great read.