Art/literature/journalism/philosophy
- Samuel Hopkins Adams, muckraker, born in Dunkirk
- Scott Adams (1957–) cartoonist, creator of Dilbert
- Cory Arcangel (1978-), artist
- Lauren Belfer, author
- J. Bowyer Bell (1931–2003), historian, artist and art critic
- Timothy D. Bellavia (1971-), artist and illustrator
- Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856–1913), architect
- William Bliss Baker (1859–1886), American landscape painter
- Wolf Blitzer (1948-), CNN journalist; host of The Situation Room
- Lawrence Block, (1938-), author
- Howard Bloom, (1943-), author
- Dale Brown, (1956-), author
- Gordon Bunshaft (1909–1990), architect
- Charles E. Burchfield (1893–1967), artist
- Charles Clough (1951-), artist
- Burton Crane (1901–1963), journalist
- Robert Creeley (1926–2005), poet
- Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900), artist
- Arthur B. Davies (1863–1928), artist
- Melvil Dewey (1851–1931), originator of the Dewey Decimal System
- Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune advice columnist, who grew up on a dairy farm in Freeville
- Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), editor and publisher of abolitionist newspapers such as The North Star.
- Arthur Dove (1880–1946), artist
- Philip Evergood (1901–1973), artist
- Leslie Fiedler (1917–2003), literary critic
- Steve Fiorilla (1961–2009), artist
- Ira Joe Fisher, author and weatherman, who was born and raised in Little Valley
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, author, raised in Buffalo
- Helen Frankenthaler (1928–), artist
- Kelly Freas (1922–2005), artist
- Anna Katharine Green (1846–1935), author
- E.B. Green (1855–1950), architect
- Terry Gross (1951-), radio host, Fresh Air
- Richard Hofstadter, author and philosopher
- Paul Horgan (1903–1995), author
- Roni Horn (1955–), artist
- Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915), philosopher and writer
- Washington Irving (1783–1859), author
- Henry James (1843–1916), author
- William James (1842–1910), philosopher
- James A. Johnson (1865–1939), architect
- Ellsworth Kelly (1923–), artist
- John Kessel (1950-), author
- Verlyn Klinkenborg, member of the New York Times editorial board; writer and farmer
- Nancy Kress (1948-), author
- Matt Lauer (1957–), news anchor of The Today Show
- Zoe Leonard (1961–), photographer and visual artist
- Robert Longo (1953-), artist
- Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879–1962), writer and patron
- Norman Mailer (1923–2007), author
- Francis Mallison of Rome, Journalist, editor and public servant, helped organize the "Great Civil War Gold Hoax"
- Herman Melville (1819–1891), author, Moby-Dick
- Brice Marden (1938–), artist
- Ogden Nash (1902–1971), poet
- Joyce Carol Oates (1938-), author
- Tim Powers (1952-), author
- Ishmael Reed (1938-), poet
- John Reed (1969–), author, Snowball's Chance
- Norman Rockwell (1894–1978), painter
- Spain Rodriguez (1940-), cartoonist
- Milton Rogovin (1909–2011), photographer
- Charles Rohlfs (1853–1936, craftsman
- Tim Russert (1950–2008), host of NBC's Meet the Press
- David Sedaris (1956–), humorist
- Tony Sisti (1901–1983), painter
- Eugene Speicher, (1883–1962), painter
- Elizabeth Swados (1951-), author
- Dorothy Thompson, born in Lancaster
- Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), artist
- Tom Toles (1951-), cartoonist
- Israel Tsvaygenbaum (1961-), Russian-American artist
- Mark Twain (1835–1910), author
- Andrew Vachss (1942–), author, activist, and lawyer
- Richard A. Waite (1848–1911), architect
- J. Alden Weir (1852–1919), painter
- Edith Wharton (1862–1937), author
- Walt Whitman (1819–1892), poet
- Brian Williams (1959–), news anchor of NBC Nightly News
- John Zogby of Utica, pollster and blogger
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“May we not assure ourselves that whatever woman’s thought and study shall embrace will thereby receive a new inspiration, that she will save science from materialism, and art from a gross realism; that the “eternal womanly shall lead upward and onward”?”
—Louisa Parsons Hopkins, U.S. scientist and author. As quoted in The Fair Women, ch. 16, by Jeanne Madeline Weimann (1981)
“This is not “writing” at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word “no.” To “no” there is only one answer and that is “yes.” Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)