To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of art — this is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.

"The Arts in America" in LOOK magazine (18 December 1962), p. 110; also published in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy 1962, p. 907, inscribed on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., and quoted at the JFK Library