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Artist Quotes by John F. Kennedy
- In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.
- 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…
- In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.
- If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must…
- The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may.
- 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…
- An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.
- If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- 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.
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