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Art Quotes by John F. Kennedy
- In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.
- There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of…
- Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy…
- I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we…
- Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes…
- Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.
- There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.
- Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in…
- I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to…
- If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease,…
- Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it…
- We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
- Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color
- But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou…
- The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a…
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov