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And now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make good art.
— Address to the University of the Arts Class of 2012
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The speech's last paragraph is a permission slip: errors are the price of doing anything worth keeping, so make them boldly and leave something behind. 'Make good art' became the line's own slogan, repeated by writers, designers and teachers as a reply to any bad day or bad news. It turns up on graduation cards, studio walls and in every thread about creative block.
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Neil Gaiman gave this address on 17 May 2012 at Philadelphia's University of the Arts, where he received an honorary doctorate. The lines quoted here are the speech's send-off to the graduates: go out into a world with no map, take risks, ignore received rules, and let the work be the point. In 2013 William Morrow published the speech as a small illustrated keepsake book, Make Good Art, designed by Chip Kidd.
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- HarperCollins: Make Good ArtProduct descriptionReference checked
- Wikipedia: Neil Gaiman bibliographyMake Good Art entryReference checked
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