Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
We have some of the most influential Members of Congress here today, and I do hope that we can get this appropriation for these… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
Peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
