Art Matters Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

<p>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.<br><br>“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.”—Neil Gaiman</p><p>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.</p><p>Art Matters bring together four of Gaiman’s most beloved writings on creativity and artistry: </p><ul><li>“Credo,” his remarkably concise and relevant manifesto on free expression, first delivered in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings</li><li>“Make Good Art,” his famous 2012 commencement address delivered at the Philadelphia University of the Arts</li><li>“Making a Chair,” a poem about the joys of creating something, even when words won’t come</li><li>“On Libraries,” an impassioned argument for libraries that illuminates their importance to our future and celebrates how they foster readers and daydreamers</li></ul><p>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.</p>