Arts
- James Muir Auld (1879–1942): Ashfield born artist; winner of the 1935 Wynne Prize
- Normand Henry Baker (1908–1955): Archibald Prize winning artist who was born in Summer Hill
- Geraldine Brooks (born 1955): Pulitzer Prize-winning author (for March); wrote about her childhood in Ashfield in the book Foreign Correspondence
- Henry Halloran (1811–1893): Poet and resident of Ashfield; buried in St John's cemetery
- John Lang (1816–1864): poet and barrister, son of Elizabeth Underwood; grew up in Ashfield
- Adam Phillips (born 1971): Award-winning animator and artist who utilizes Adobe Flash; worked with Disney during the 1990s
- Robie Porter (Rob EG) (born 1942) musician and record label owner
- Arthur Streeton (1867–1943): Australian artist who briefly lived in Summer Hill
- Rod Taylor (born 1930) Hollywood movie star
- P. L. Travers (1899–1996): Author of five volumes of Mary Poppins stories; boarded at Normanhurst School in Ashfield beginning in 1912 and later lived with her mother and younger sisters at 17 Pembroke Street
- Fredrick Wills (1870–1955), artist and photographer and motion picture pioneer
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure—if you don’t like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don’t like it, you don’t understand and you ought to find out.”
—John Drummond (b. 1934)
“If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay—in solid cash—the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)