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JFK on Artisits
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the
artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him ... 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. In serving his
vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation. And the nation
which disdains the mission of art invites the fate of Robert Frost's
hired man, the fate of having "nothing to look backward to with pride,
and nothing to look forward to with hope".
-- President John F. Kennedy: Remarks at Amherst College, October 26, 1963
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