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How To Live An Artful Life
  • Published: 6 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804956403
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 496

How To Live An Artful Life

366 Inspirations from Artists on how to Bring Creativity to Your Everyday

Formats & editions
Hardback
4 Nov 2025
EBook
6 Nov 2025
Audiobook
6 Nov 2025
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Find daily inspiration for every day of the year in a joyful collection of quotes and ideas from artists, brought together by the founder of The Great Women Artists.

The year ahead is a gift that has been given to you. What might you do with it?

Dive into the year with the wisdom of artists. Gathered from interviews, personal conversations, books and talks, How to Live an Artful Life moves through the months of the year offering you thoughts, reflections and encouragements from artists such as Marina Abramovic, Nan Goldin, Lubaina Himid, Louise Bourgeois and many more. With a thought for every day of the year, whether looking for beginnings in January, freedom in summer, or transformation as the nights draw in, this is a book of words to cherish. The year is full of the promise of work that has yet to be written, paintings that are yet to be painted, people who have yet to meet, talk, or fall in love. With this book in hand, pay attention, and see the world anew. Go out and find it, taste it, seize it, and live it – artfully.
  • Published: 6 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804956403
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 496

About the author

Katy Hessel

Katy Hessel is an art historian and the author of The Story of Art without Men, the international bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Year 2022. She runs @thegreatwomenartists on Instagram, hosts The Great Women Artists Podcast, interviewing artists such as Tracey Emin and Marina Abramovic, and is a columnist for the Guardian. Hessel is a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University and a Trustee of Charleston. In 2024, she launched Museums Without Men, an audio series highlighting works by women artists in museum collections worldwide, such as The Met and Tate Britain.

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Praise for How To Live An Artful Life

A marvellous gift for anyone who needs to channel the creative promise of books yet to be written, paintings yet to be painted and more.

Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller

It’s hard to imagine anyone more passionate about art than Katy Hessel … her enthusiasm is infectious.

AnOther

What Hessel has done across her two books ­is impressive, introducing the work of hundreds of women artists to a wide audience of readers

Frieze