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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“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)
“I should say that the most prominent scientific men of our country, and perhaps of this age, are either serving the arts and not pure science, or are performing faithful but quite subordinate labors in particular departments. They make no steady and systematic approaches to the central fact.... There is wanting constant and accurate observation with enough of theory to direct and discipline it. But, above all, there is wanting genius.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)