Neil gaiman speech make good art5/8/2023 ![]() It gets you through good times and it gets you through the other ones.” And for me, and for so many of the people I have known, that’s been a lifesaver. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Whatever discipline you are in,” he says, “whether you are a musician or a photographer, a fine artist or a cartoonist, a writer, a dancer, a designer, whatever you do, you have one thing that’s unique. For Gaiman, art is redemptive, not because it makes us somehow better, but because it allows us to speak from the very center of our selves. But what makes the speech remarkable is its focus because it was delivered at an art school, it is all about how (and why) we make art. Gaiman’s address has just been released as a small hardcover, under the title “Neil Gaiman’s ‘Make Good Art’ speech” (Morrow: unpaged, $12.99), and if the page design (by Chip Kidd) can be a bit intrusive, the ideas, the enthusiasm, continue to resonate.Įssentially, Gaiman is arguing in favor of engagement, of staying in the moment and appreciating what we’ve got. “And because nobody’s done it before, they haven’t made up rules to stop anyone doing that again.” What he’s getting at is a fundamental faith of the creative life - that rules can be the death of imagination, and that in order to live the lives we want, we must be able, first, to envision them. “If you don’t know it’s impossible, it’s easier to do,” he says. ![]()
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