Artists
- William Woollett (1735–1785) – engraver
- William Alexander (painter) (1767–1816) – painter and illustrator
- J. M. W. Turner (c. 1775–1851) – landscape painter
- Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902) – painter
- Elizabeth Gould (illustrator) (1804–1902) – illustrator
- Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) – landscape painter
- Richard Dadd (1817–1886) – painter
- John Hassall (illustrator) (1868–1948) – illustrator
- Mary Tourtel (1874–1948) – artist and creator of Rupert Bear
- Hugh Cecil (1889—c. 1939) – photographer
- Compton Bennett (1900–1974) – film director and producer
- Tyrone Guthrie (1900–1971) – Tony Award winning theatre director
- Don Potter (1902–2004) – sculptor
- Michael Powell (director) (1905–1990) – film director
- Peter Rogers (born 1914) – film producer of the Carry On film series
- Oliver Postgate (born 1925) – animator and co-creator of Bagpuss, The Clangers and Ivor the Engine
- Peter Firmin (born 1928) – animator and co-creator of Basil Brush, Bagpuss and The Clangers
- Frank Auerbach (born 1931) – painter
- Peter Blake (artist) (born 1932) – pop artist, designer of the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album sleeve
- Mary Quant (born 1934) – fashion designer and inventor of the miniskirt and hot pants
- Antoinette Sibley (born 1939) – ballerina
- Zandra Rhodes (born 1940) – fashion designer
- Tim Page (born 1944) – Vietnam War photo-journalist
- Roger Dean (born 1944) – album cover artist
- Dick Pope (cinematographer) (born 1947) – cinematographer
- Bill Lewis (born 1953) – founder member of the Stuckists art group
- Mike Bernard (painter) (born 1957) – painter
- Gary Hume (born 1962) – painter
- John Hutton (born 1948) – abstract painter
- Tracey Emin (born 1963) – Royal Academy artist
- Tacita Dean (born 1965) – visual artist
- Angus Fairhurst (born 1966) – photographic and visual artist
- Joe Machine (born 1973) – founder member of the Stuckists art group
- Remy Noe (born 1974) – founder member of the Stuckists art group
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“The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.”
—Aldous Huxley (18941963)
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“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”
—Marcel Duchamp (18871968)