Arts
- John Smith (engraver) (1652–1742), English mezzotint engraver
- John Smith (English poet) (1662–1717), English poet and playwright
- John Christopher Smith (1712–1795), English composer
- John Warwick Smith (1749–1831), British watercolour landscape painter and illustrator
- John Stafford Smith (1750–1836), composer of the tune for "The Star-Spangled Banner"
- John Raphael Smith (1752–1812), English mezzotint engraver and painter
- John Thomas Smith (engraver) (1766–1833), draughtsman, engraver and antiquarian
- John Smith (clockmaker) (1770–1816), Scottish clockmaker
- John Rubens Smith (1775–1849), London-born painter, printmaker and art instructor who worked in the United States
- John Smith (architect) (1781–1852), Scottish architect
- John Frederick Smith (1806–1890), English novelist
- John Moyr Smith (1839–1912), British artist and designer
- John Berryman (1914–1972), originally John Allyn Smith, American poet
- John Smith (poet) (born 1927), Canadian poet
- John Smith (actor) (1931–1995), American actor
- John N. Smith (born 1943), Canadian film director and screenwriter
- John Smith (filmmaker) (born 1952), avant-garde filmmaker
- John Smith (comics) (born 1967), British comics writer
- John Gibson Smith, Scottish poet
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.”
—Eliza Farnham (1815–1864)
“Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“What ails it, intrinsically, is a dearth of intellectual audacity and of aesthetic passion. Running through it, and characterizing the work of almost every man and woman producing it, there is an unescapable suggestion of the old Puritan suspicion of the fine arts as such—of the doctrine that they offer fit asylum for good citizens only when some ulterior and superior purpose is carried into them.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)