Arts
- John Churton Collins (1848–1908), English literary critic
- John Collins (Australian musician) (born 1971), bass guitarist for Powderfinger
- John Collins (Canadian musician), of The New Pornographers and The Smugglers
- John Collins (jazz guitarist) (1913–2001)
- John Collins (musician/researcher), musician involved in the West African music scene
- John Collins (poet) (1742–1808), English orator, singer, and poet
- John Collins (director) (born c. 1969), American experimental theater director
- John D. Collins (born 1942), British actor, best known for his role as one of the British airmen in 'Allo 'Allo
- Johnny Collins (1938–2009), British folksinger
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“One man cannot practice many arts with success.”
—Plato (c. 427347 B.C.)
“Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.”
—Joseph Addison (16721719)
“Eliot dead, you saying,
And who is left to understand my jokes?
My old Brother in the arts . . . and besides, he was a smash of
poet.”
—Robert Lowell (19171977)
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