“It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake. ”
“Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)”
“Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.”
“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. ”
“All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.”
“Are you sayin' it's okay to throw yourself at someone for the sake of art but it's not okay to go around bein' nice?”