Artists
- Lord Antony Armstrong-Jones (Jesus) Portrait photographer
- Sir Cecil Beaton (St John's) Fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, style icon, interior designer and Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer
- Quentin Blake (Downing) Cartoonist, illustrator and children's author, well known for his collaborations with writer Roald Dahl
- Sir Roy Yorke Calne (Unknown) Contemporary painter and Group 90 member
- Sir Anthony Caro (Christ's) Abstract sculptor, famed for the use of 'found' industrial objects
- Ralph Chubb (Selwyn) Late Romantic painter and printer
- Roger Fry (King's) Modernist painter and Bloomsbury Group member
- Antony Gormley (Trinity) Sculptor, best known for the Angel of the North
- Jon Harris (Trinity Hall) Painter, illustrator, and calligrapher, best known for his drawings of Cambridge
- Luke Piper (Unknown) Contemporary landscape painter
- Marc Quinn (Robinson) Contemporary sculptor, member of Young British Artists, best known for Self and Alison Lapper Siren
- Mick Rock (Caius) Pop culture photographer, renowned for the iconic images major Rock bands
- Julian Trevelyan (Trinity) Surrealist painter and Modern printmaker
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Famous quotes containing the word artists:
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A really great poet is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants.”
—Laurent A. Daloz (20th century)
“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)