Arts
- John Henry Parker (1806–1884), English writer on architecture
- John Parker (musician), British musician from the band Nizlopi
- John Parker (author), British writer
- John L. Parker, Jr. (born 1947), American writer
- Jon Kimura Parker (born 1959), Canadian pianist
- John "Jack" Parker, first curator of the James Ford Bell Library, 1953–1991
- John D. Parker (born 1968), American writer
- John Adams Parker (1829–1905), New York painter
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“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)
“In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)