Arts and Literature
- Enrique Alferez, sculptor
- John James Audubon, painter, ornithologist, naturalist
- E. J. Bellocq, photographer
- Skip Bolen, photographer
- James Belton Bonsall, painter
- Poppy Z. Brite, writer
- George Washington Cable, writer
- Milburn E. Calhoun, book publisher
- Truman Capote, writer
- John Churchill Chase, writer and cartoonist
- Kate Chopin, writer, feminist
- Ben Claassen III, illustrator and comics artist DIRTFARM
- Andrei Codrescu, poet and commentator
- Edgar Degas, artist
- George Washington Dixon, newspaper editor
- William Faulkner, writer
- Daniel F. Galouye, science fiction writer
- Shirley Ann Grau, writer
- Lafcadio Hearn, writer
- Knute Heldner, artist.
- Lillian Hellman, writer
- George Herriman, Krazy Kat cartoonist
- Caroline Hill, actress
- Walter Isaacson, writer, journalist, public policy analyst
- Elmore Leonard, author
- Michael Lewis, writer
- Renee Peck, writer
- Matthew Randazzo V, writer
- Anne Rice, writer of vampire tales and other Gothic fiction
- Christopher Rice, author
- Stan Rice, poet
- George Rodrigue, artist
- Jean Seidenberg, artist
- Sam A. Threefoot, writer, researcher, and physician
- John Kennedy Toole, writer of A Confederacy of Dunces
- Mary Lou Widmer, author
- Tennessee Williams, Famous Playwright
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Famous quotes containing the words arts and, arts and/or literature:
“As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“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)
“The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)