The Arts
- Marcel (singer) (Marcel Francois Chagnon) (c. 1975), American country music singer and songwriter known by the singular name, Marcel
- Marcel Broodthaers (1924–1976), Belgian poet, artist, and filmmaker
- Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), French-American artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements
- Marcel Dupré (1886-1971), French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.
- Marcel Dzama (b. 1974), Canadian artist known for small-scale ink and watercolor drawings
- Marcel Janco (1895–1984), Israeli painter and architect
- Marcel Marceau (1923–2007), French mime artist and actor
- Marcel Martí (b. 1925), Argentine-born sculptor of Catalan descent
- Marcel Proust (1871–1922), French novelist, essayist, and critic
- Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez (c. 1984), member of The Mars Volta and younger brother of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
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“The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“I should say that the most prominent scientific men of our country, and perhaps of this age, are either serving the arts and not pure science, or are performing faithful but quite subordinate labors in particular departments. They make no steady and systematic approaches to the central fact.... There is wanting constant and accurate observation with enough of theory to direct and discipline it. But, above all, there is wanting genius.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)