u003cpu003eA 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.u003cbru003eu003cbru003e“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.”—Neil Gaimanu003c/pu003eu003cpu003eDrawn 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.u003c/pu003eu003cpu003eArt Matters bring together four of Gaiman’s most beloved writings on creativity and artistry: u003c/pu003eu003culu003eu003cliu003e“Credo,” his remarkably concise and relevant manifesto on free expression, first delivered in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootingsu003c/liu003eu003cliu003e“Make Good Art,” his famous 2012 commencement address delivered at the Philadelphia University of the Artsu003c/liu003eu003cliu003e“Making a Chair,” a poem about the joys of creating something, even when words won’t comeu003c/liu003eu003cliu003e“On Libraries,” an impassioned argument for libraries that illuminates their importance to our future and celebrates how they foster readers and daydreamersu003c/liu003eu003c/ulu003eu003cpu003eFeaturing 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.u003c/pu003e
