The Points of the Creative Artists’ Code: Thirteen - No one ever said you have to agree

by NDK Creative Artist

In this thirteenth article discussing the points of the Code of a Creative Artist, NDK talks about the power of individual choice versus the sheep mentality when it comes to the direction your works of art take. - Joel Falconer, Editor-in-Chief

Someone said that “We were fools who tried to change the world and make it a better place.” One of us agreed and told another who told another. We stopped trying to make it a better place. No-one ever said that “you have to agree.”

Again this harks back to the idealism of the Sixties, an era where art & entertainment and the ideas of freedom and liberty came together as one and created a lasting moment and some seminal works that even today, several generations later, bind us together in the way that only art can.

This point of the code is about the idea of being powerless and incapable of addressing the ills of society as they come to our attention, and this point is also about those who attack the idea that we wish to do something to improve the conditions we see around us, and by which we are appalled and then motivated to do something effective about.

The point of this point is to remind us, as Creative Artists, that we do not have to agree with the negativity and misunderstandings that others will put upon us as we move to effect positive change through our art or our action in the world.

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