Arts
- John Churton Collins (1848–1908), English literary critic
- John Collins (Australian musician) (born 1971), bass guitarist for Powderfinger
- John Collins (Canadian musician), of The New Pornographers and The Smugglers
- John Collins (jazz guitarist) (1913–2001)
- John Collins (musician/researcher), musician involved in the West African music scene
- John Collins (poet) (1742–1808), English orator, singer, and poet
- John Collins (director) (born c. 1969), American experimental theater director
- John D. Collins (born 1942), British actor, best known for his role as one of the British airmen in 'Allo 'Allo
- Johnny Collins (1938–2009), British folksinger
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“But here comes Generosity; giving—not to a decayed artist—but to the arts and sciences themselves.—See,—he builds ... whole schools and colleges for those who come after. Lord! how they will magnify his name!
—One honest tear shed in private over the unfortunate, is worth them all.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept.... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“I too have arts and sorceries;
Illusion dwells forever with the wave.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)