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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 pericles was also the age of phidias. the age of lorenzo de medici was also the age of leonardo da vinci. the age of elizabeth was also the age of shakespeare. and the new frontier for which i campaign in public life, can also be a new frontier for american art.

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There Is A Connection, Hard To Explain

John F. Kennedy

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 pericles was also the age of phidias. the age of lorenzo de medici was also the age of leonardo da vinci. the age of elizabeth was also the age of shakespeare. and the new frontier for which i campaign in public life, can also be a new frontier for american art.

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There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

Leonardo da vinci had such a playful curiosity. if you read his notebooks, you'll see he's curious about what the tongue of a woodpecker looks like, but also why the sky is blue, or how an emotion forms on somebody's lips. he understood the beauty of everything. i've admired leonardo my whole life, both as a kid who loved engineering - he was one of the coolest engineers in history - and then as a college student, when i travelled to see his notebooks and paintings.

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Leonardo da vinci did not take received wisdom - whether from ancient classical thinkers or medieval scholars or from the bible - without questioning it. and this was the beginning of the scientific method. this is another lesson for our time: that when we have evidence that contradicts a certain belief, we should be willing to change it. i think this made leonardo, in some ways, a person who better understood the beauty of god's creation than a person who just takes all received wisdom from the bible on faith.

I will say with lorenzo de medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. the art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves first in the human person. the art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. there is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.

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