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:
“Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)
“Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“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 (18031882)