The event, unfortunately, will be limited to UArts students, faculty, staff, and student ID bootleggers who know how to make good art. That same night, Gaiman will be back at UArts for a signing and a conversation at 7 p.m. Now, a year later, you can order the Make Good Art book, which contains the full text of Gaiman’s speech, and is being released Tuesday May 14th. That passage spawned a comic book adaptation, almost immediately afterwards.

Someone on the Internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before - make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor - make good art. Husband runs off with a politician - make good art. Life will sometimes get in the way but an artist should allows make time to creating something unique. When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. This is probably one of my favorite quotes from the speech because it is somewhat funny but it also brings home the point that young artists should always, no matter the circumstance, create art. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.Remember the University of the Arts commencement speech that went viral last May? “Make Good Art,” as it became known, was delivered by English author Neil Gaiman, and people were pretty much weeping over it in joy. Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.īecause if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. So potent was his advice on courage and the creative life that the speech was adapted into Make Good Art- a gem of a book designed by Chip Kidd.Ī wise woman once said, “If you are not making mistakes, you’re not taking enough risks.” Gaiman articulates the same sentiment with his own brand of exquisite eloquence: Leave the world more interesting for your being here. And now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Among the greatest commencement addresses is an extraordinary speech author Neil Gaiman delivered in 2012 at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts. Neil Gaiman addressed the Class of 2012 at the 134th Commencement of University of the Arts.

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