Interest in The Arts
Professor Jennison was a co-founder of the Canterbury Society of Art and was involved in the activities of the Canterbury Arts Council. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the Royal Society of Arts.
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Famous quotes containing the words interest in the, interest and/or arts:
“One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.”
—Jean Rostand (1894–1977)
“My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am no more interested in such things than in the contents of the Daily Times. The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)