Art
- Rebecca Leshchinsky-one of the best henna tattoo artists with a sharpie
- Anish Kapoor - won the 1991 Turner Prize. His parents were refugees who fled Iraq.
- Piet Mondrian - a refugee
- Marc Chagall - a Russian-born Jewish refugee
- Jacob Epstein - son of Polish-Jewish refugees
- Lucian Freud - a well-known British painter, he is a German-Jewish refugee
- Peter Carl Fabergé - Russian jeweller, fled Russia via Finland, Germany to Switzerland.
- Mona Hatoum - a well-known British painter, she is a Palestinian-Lebanese refugee
Josine Ianco-Starrels - Los Angeles curator whose exhibits gave attention to emerging, mid-career, and established artists
Marcel Janco - Painter and conceptual artist who fled Romania for Israel
- Camille Pissarro - a French-Jewish refugee
- Sir John Tenniel - a cartoonist and book illustrator - descended from Huguenot refugees
- Alfred Wolmark - painter, a Polish-Jewish refugee
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“He is a man of one idea: that life has a symbolic significance. Which is to say that life and art are one.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
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—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“Postmodern agenda: the peep show is the art form; the voyeur is the protagonist; the goal is excitement from a safe distance; the alibi is that it’s all ironic.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)