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Art Matters

Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

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Art Matters

Written by: Neil Gaiman, Chris Riddell
Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
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A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gaiman.

“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.

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.

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The only thing better than Neil Gaiman, is Neil Gaiman reading Neil Gaiman out loud. As addictive to listen to as it is to think about afterwards, Neil Gaiman passes down wisdom from his many experiences; both encouraging adventurousness and soothing those great mythical doubts which haunt every artist. BUT he's also Neil Gaiman. That means, despite inheriting this invaluable knowledge, he still makes you feel like a child at story time, whisking you away to another world filled with magic and enchanting you with it's possibilities.

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