Arts
- John Henry Parker (1806–1884), English writer on architecture
- John Parker (musician), British musician from the band Nizlopi
- John Parker (author), British writer
- John L. Parker, Jr. (born 1947), American writer
- Jon Kimura Parker (born 1959), Canadian pianist
- John "Jack" Parker, first curator of the James Ford Bell Library, 1953–1991
- John D. Parker (born 1968), American writer
- John Adams Parker (1829–1905), New York painter
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“These modern ingenious sciences and arts do not affect me as those more venerable arts of hunting and fishing, and even of husbandry in its primitive and simple form; as ancient and honorable trades as the sun and moon and winds pursue, coeval with the faculties of man, and invented when these were invented. We do not know their John Gutenberg, or Richard Arkwright, though the poets would fain make them to have been gradually learned and taught.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)