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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“For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.”
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“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.”
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