art for art's sake

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax. (Pablo Picasso)

is a perversion of art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own.

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (Benjamin Constant)

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for. (George Sand)

is more accurately expressed as art for our sake.

The veracity of 'art for art's sake' is more accurately expressed as 'art for our sake.' (Che Baraka)

is no more sensical than gin for gin's sake.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake. (W. Somerset Maugham)

is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs. (Carl Andre)

is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.

through censorship, which has the same relation to criticism that lynching has to justice.

art for art's sake, n.All

art for art's sake