Arts
| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cannon, Kevin | 2002 | Comics writer and artist | |
| Cannon, Zander | 1995 | Comics writer and artist | |
| Wilhem, Henry | 1968 | Pioneered techniques on maintaining color in color photographs. | |
| Hancock, Herbie | 1960 | Jazz musician and composer |
Gary Cooper, the famous American actor (1901-1961) studied for two years at Grinnell, but did not graduate there.
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“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 (1694–1773)
“On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom of many an ancient philosopher.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)