Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World — By Neil Gaiman, Illustrated by Chris Riddell

“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” — Neil Gaiman A stunning and timely creative classic combining four extraordinarily written pieces by Neil Gaiman and illustrated with the simple lines and whimsical images of Chris Riddell, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World brings 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 Drawn from Gaiman’s trove of published speeches, poems, and creative manifestos, Art