Neil Gaiman

A creative call to arms from the mind of Neil Gaiman, combining his extraordinary words with deft and striking illustrations by Chris Riddell. Art Matters will inspire its readers to seize the day in the name of art. 'Like a bedtime story for the rest of your life, this is a book to live by. At its core, it's about freeing ideas, shedding fear of failure, and learning that "things can be different". ' - Institute of Imagination Be bold. Be rebellious. Choose art. It matters. Neil Gaiman once said that 'the world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before'. This little book is the embodiment of that vision. Drawn together from speeches, poems and creative manifestos, Art Matters explores how reading, imagining and creating can change the world, and will be inspirational to young and old. What readers are saying about ART MATTERS 'A rallying cry for all artists and creators' 'Just the injection of positive thinking I needed' 'What a gorgeous, sweet and very, very wise little book' 'You don't know it yet, but it's likely you need this book' 'I feel artistically charged up for the first time in ages'

Art Matters

Chris Riddell

A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gaiman illustrated with the striking four-color artwork of Chris Riddell. “The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.”—Neil Gaiman Drawn from Gaiman’s trove of published speeches, poems, and creative manifestos, Art Matters is an embodiment of this remarkable multi-media artist’s vision—an exploration of how reading, imagining, and creating can transform the world and our lives. Art Matters bring together four of Gaiman’s most beloved writings on creativity and artistry: “Credo,” his remarkably concise and relevant manifesto on free expression, first delivered in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings “Make Good Art,” his famous 2012 commencement address delivered at the Philadelphia University of the Arts “Making a Chair,” a poem about the joys of creating something, even when words won’t come “On Libraries,” an impassioned argument for libraries that illuminates their importance to our future and celebrates how they foster readers and daydreamers Featuring original illustrations by Gaiman’s longtime illustrator, Chris Riddell, Art Matters is a stirring testament to the freedom of ideas that inspires us to make art in the face of adversity, and dares us to choose to be bold.

Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

Sarah Sammis

** spoiler alert **
           The essays, though, weren't the uplift I was hoping for the new year. Gaiman describes a world that no longer exists. He describes the chances he took that got him where he is. These tricks won't work for the majority of the readers. They certainly won't work for marginalized artists at the scale they have worked for him.

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Ryan 

i feel the need to buy this book in order to have it on my shelf so that i can pick up and be encouraged by the words of this book. such an inspiring read that is so essential for readers that are pursuing careers in the arts.

Lara Engle

This is a sweet little book to pick up any time you need some inspiration. I'm a teacher, and my profession is more frustrating all the time ... and yet it feels full of possibility in this moment because Neil Gaiman told me to make my own rules and to keep creating. I think I will.

Joy Bush

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Neil Gaiman never ceases to amaze with his eloquently powerful writing and this book serves as much.

In a manifesto on art, all kinds of art but mostly the passion of it, for a writer, for a reader, Gaiman explains how it's not just important but essential and dutiful to make good art and to share it. 

I've always believed that the essence of living with passion is to live with art and this book just confirmed it.

You may wonder why not pick other books on the matter, right? Maybe other authors said more about it? But Neil Gaiman's style adds to it all the more. And this book can be quoted start to finish without a doubt.

The kind of book you'd want to sit in your library and read aloud for others.

A creative call to arms from the mind of Neil Gaiman, combining his extraordinary words with deft and striking illustrations by Chris Riddell. Art Matters will inspire its readers to seize the day in the name of art. Be bold. Be rebellious. Choose art. It matters. Neil Gaiman once said that 'the world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before'. This little book is the embodiment of that vision. Drawn together from speeches, poems and creative manifestos, Art Matters explores how reading, imagining and creating can change the world, and will be inspirational to young and old.

Neil Gaiman never ceases to amaze with his eloquently powerful writing and this book serves as much.

In a manifesto on art, all kinds of art but mostly the passion of it, for a writer, for a reader, Gaiman explains how it's not just important but essential and dutiful to make good art and to share it. 

I've always believed that the essence of living with passion is to live with art and this book just confirmed it.

You may wonder why not pick other books on the matter, right? Maybe other authors said more about it? But Neil Gaiman's style adds to it all the more. And this book can be quoted start to finish without a doubt.

The kind of book you'd want to sit in your library and read aloud for others.

Art Matters

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