art for art's sake

Meaning

Noun

Art with no function; whose only purpose is beauty.

Related

Similar words

ars gratia artis

Origin

French l'art pour l'art, a phrase credited to Théophile Gautier. Some argue Gautier was not the first to write those words. They appear in the works of Victor Cousin, Benjamin Constant and Edgar Allan Poe.

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