What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by being known that it works, it influences, it does its duty, it does good. We must try, then, to be known, aim at it, take means to it. And this without puffing in the process or pride in the success. Gerard Manley Hopkins
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The purpose of works of art is to educate people. We want the works of art that we create, to be known and to go beyond our borders. When we produce works like this, it will influence people’s lives and the world will be a better place because of it.

Source: Letters To Robert Bridges And Correspondence With Richard Watson Dixon

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  1. The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
  2. All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.
  3. NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist–slack they may be–these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.
  4. What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
  5. Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.
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