Arts
- John Maxwell (actor) (1916–1982), American actor of the 1940s and 1950s
- John Maxwell (artist) (1905–1962), Scottish artist
- John Maxwell (producer), British film producer associated with British International Pictures
- John Maxwell (1824-1895), London-based publisher, husband of Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- John Maxwell (writer) (born 1944), American writer
- John Alan Maxwell (1904–1984), American artist and illustrator
- John C. Maxwell (born 1947), American author and leadership coach
- Johnny Maxwell, fictional character in Terry Pratchett novels
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to speak, the world’s inheritance,... these are the materials and hints for a history of the rise and progress of the race; how, from the condition of ants, it arrived at the condition of men, and arts were gradually invented. Let a thousand surmises shed some light on this story.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“Women hock their jewels and their husbands’ insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then is it that when anyone commits anything novel in the arts he should be always greeted by this same peevish howl of pain and surprise? One is led to suspect that the interest people show in these much talked of commodities, painting, music, and writing, cannot be very deep or very genuine when they so wince under an unexpected impact.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)