定義:[1] "A slogan meaning that the beauty of the finearts is reason enough for pursuing them — that art does not have to serve purposes taken from politics,religion,economics,and so on."
[詞典]
[2]"Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendering of a French slogan from the early 19th century,''l'art pour l'art'',and expresses a philosophy that the intrinsic value of art,and the only "true" art,is divorced from any didactic,moral or utilitarian function.Such works are sometimes described as "autotelic",from the Greek autoteles,“complete in itself”,a concept that has been expanded to embrace "inner-directed" or "self-motivated" human beings.[維基]