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Neil gaiman make good art quote6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Gaiman spent the speech sharing hard-won life lessons that he wish he’d been told of when he was of college age. ![]() Yet it was perhaps the brilliant stanzas near the midpoint - as the acclaimed author brewed an alchemy of truth and humor and effective refrain - that will resonate with the clearest powerful precision to many of those artist-graduates, as well as the lifelong artists who’ve watched. As we cited yesterday, the entire talk was inspiring. And it sticks.Īnd so it was with Neil Gaiman’s viral commencement speech a week ago, to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia (which says video of his address has now been viewed more than 200,000 times). Mesh that device with well-worded ideas that ring fresh and yet so universally true, and you wonder how they hadn’t occurred to you before - or at least lately. Delivered with the right delightful timing, this repetition can stoke the firing synapses like strange and weird and wonderful magic. ![]() THERE IS A POWER, naturally, to the mantra or musical refrain or repeated sequence or whatever-you-want-to-call that device of relooping recognition that bores with force into our brains. ![]()
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