Artists
- Lord Antony Armstrong-Jones (Jesus) Portrait photographer
- Sir Cecil Beaton (St John's) Fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, style icon, interior designer and Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer
- Quentin Blake (Downing) Cartoonist, illustrator and children's author, well known for his collaborations with writer Roald Dahl
- Sir Roy Yorke Calne (Unknown) Contemporary painter and Group 90 member
- Sir Anthony Caro (Christ's) Abstract sculptor, famed for the use of 'found' industrial objects
- Ralph Chubb (Selwyn) Late Romantic painter and printer
- Roger Fry (King's) Modernist painter and Bloomsbury Group member
- Antony Gormley (Trinity) Sculptor, best known for the Angel of the North
- Jon Harris (Trinity Hall) Painter, illustrator, and calligrapher, best known for his drawings of Cambridge
- Luke Piper (Unknown) Contemporary landscape painter
- Marc Quinn (Robinson) Contemporary sculptor, member of Young British Artists, best known for Self and Alison Lapper Siren
- Mick Rock (Caius) Pop culture photographer, renowned for the iconic images major Rock bands
- Julian Trevelyan (Trinity) Surrealist painter and Modern printmaker
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“Summoning artists to participate
In the august occasions of the state
Seems something artists ought to celebrate.
Today is for my cause a day of days.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)