Arts
- John Smith (engraver) (1652–1742), English mezzotint engraver
- John Smith (English poet) (1662–1717), English poet and playwright
- John Christopher Smith (1712–1795), English composer
- John Warwick Smith (1749–1831), British watercolour landscape painter and illustrator
- John Stafford Smith (1750–1836), composer of the tune for "The Star-Spangled Banner"
- John Raphael Smith (1752–1812), English mezzotint engraver and painter
- John Thomas Smith (engraver) (1766–1833), draughtsman, engraver and antiquarian
- John Smith (clockmaker) (1770–1816), Scottish clockmaker
- John Rubens Smith (1775–1849), London-born painter, printmaker and art instructor who worked in the United States
- John Smith (architect) (1781–1852), Scottish architect
- John Frederick Smith (1806–1890), English novelist
- John Moyr Smith (1839–1912), British artist and designer
- John Berryman (1914–1972), originally John Allyn Smith, American poet
- John Smith (poet) (born 1927), Canadian poet
- John Smith (actor) (1931–1995), American actor
- John N. Smith (born 1943), Canadian film director and screenwriter
- John Smith (filmmaker) (born 1952), avant-garde filmmaker
- John Smith (comics) (born 1967), British comics writer
- John Gibson Smith, Scottish poet
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“No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.”
—Eliza Farnham (1815–1864)