He Loved And Supported For The Arts
According to Keynes, the purpose of employment should be to offer leisure rather than the chase of wealth for its own sake, which is a pathological condition. He favored longer vacation days and fewer working hours for everyone.
Keynes was interested in literature in general and drama in particular, and he provided financial assistance to the Cambridge Arts Theatre, enabling it to grow into one of the most important British theaters outside of London.
Keynes's passion for classical opera and dance prompted him to fund the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company and the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. As a participant in CEMA (the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts), Keynes worked to gain government funding for both organizations' upkeep while their facilities were closed. Keynes played a crucial role in the establishment of the Arts Council of Great Britain after the war and served as its first chairman in 1946. The Royal Opera House and Sadler's Wells were the first two organizations to receive the greatest donations from the new organization.
Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Amedeo Modigliani, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Seurat are among the artists whose works Keynes amassed a sizable collection of (some of which can now be seen at the Fitzwilliam Museum). In addition to collecting and preserving many of Isaac Newton's papers, he loved collecting books. Keynes referred to Newton as “the last of the magicians” in his writing, in part because of these publications.
